Architecture of the Sacred: Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium

by Robert G. Ousterhout

In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107429005
• ISBN13: 9781107429000
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.7"