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• Title:Crossing the threshold : architecture, iconography and the sacred entrance / Madeleine Mumcuoglu and Yosef Garfinkel.
  
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• Author/Creator:Mumcuoglu, Madeleine, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Garfinkel, Yosef, author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2018.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA3010 .M86 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Doorways--History.
  Thresholds (Doorsills)--History.
  Church doorways--History.
  
• Description:xxxii, 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:1789250765 hardcover
  9781789250763 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction, Methodology, Summarizing the Data, Discussion
  ch. 1 Introduction
  1.1. How Is this Study Organized?
  1.2. Research Questions
  1.3. Definition of Recessed Openings
  1.4. Recessed Openings: History of Research
  ch. 2 Methodology
  2.1. Identifying the Motif
  2.2. Selection of Samples
  2.3. Geographical and Chronological Boundaries
  2.4. Dating the Samples
  2.5. Presentation of the Data
  2.6. Subdivision of the Data
  ch. 3 Summarizing the Data
  3.1. Categories of Representations
  3.2. Chronology of Recessed Openings
  3.3. Geography of Recessed Openings
  ch. 4 Discussion
  4.1. Local Developments or Diffusion?
  4.2. Adaptation of Recessed Openings
  4.3. Recessed Openings as Decoration
  4.4. Recessed Openings as an Icon of Social Order
  4.5. Recessed Openings as a Liminal Marker
  4.6. Conclusions
  pt. II Data: Recessed Openings in Architecture, Iconography and Text
  ch. 5 Recessed Openings from Late Prehistoric Mesopotamia (fifth and fourth millennia BCE)
  ch. 6 Recessed Openings of the World's Earliest Cities (late fourth and third millennia BCE Mesopotamia)
  ch. 7 Recessed Openings in Second Millennium BCE Mesopotamia and Adjacent Regions
  ch. 8 Recessed Openings in First Millennium BCE Mesopotamia
  ch. 9 Recessed Openings in the Iron Age and Persian Period in the Levant, Sardinia and Carthage (10th to fourth centuries BCE)
  ch. 10 Recessed Openings in Late Antiquity Judaism
  ch. 11 Recessed Openings in the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (sixth century BCE to third century CE)
  ch. 12 Recessed Openings in Early Christian Architecture: Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic (fourth century to 13th century CE)
  ch. 13 Recessed Openings of Later Periods.