The Strait Gate
Thresholds and Power in Western History
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 22. September 2015
384 Seiten
978-0-300-21640-0 (ISBN)
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Beschreibung
Exploring a chapter in the cultural history of the West not yet probed, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jutte reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion, as well as metaphors for salvation in the course of Western history. More than any other parts of the house, doors are objects onto which we project our ideas of, and anxieties about, security, privacy, and shelter. Drawing on a wide range of archival, literary, and visual sources, as well as on research literature across various disciplines and languages, this book pays particular attention to the history of the practices that have developed over the centuries in order to handle and control doors in everyday life.
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09/2015
Yale University Press
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Daniel Jütte is a historian of early modern and modern European history. He is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
Inhalt
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE. "I Am the Door": Portals of Salvation and Status
- CHAPTER TWO. The Power of the Keys
- CHAPTER THREE. "Whence Is That Knocking?": Precarious Passages
- CHAPTER FOUR. Reading Doors
- CHAPTER FIVE. The "City's Eyes": Gates and the Urban History of Europe
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z
