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Article: Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West.(Book review)
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- September 1, 2008
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doi: 10.1017/S0009640708001479
Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West. Edited by Sharon E. J. Gerstel. Cambridge, Mass.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006. 400 pp. $65.00 cloth.
This collection of nine scholarly essays, edited by Sharon E. J. Gerstel, is based on papers presented at the 2003 Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, The Sacred Screen: Origins, Development, and Diffusion (May 9-11, 2003). The papers survey archaeological, artistic, and literary evidence for the screening of sacred space in different ...