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John Baggley.
Doors of Perception: Icons and their Spiritual Significance.
Published Oxford: Mowbray, 1987.
ISBN 0264670124.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Cowells Ltd., Ipswich.
Size: 137x215x13mm.
Page count: xii,160pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks somewhat battered, some scuffs on the covers and wear at the edges and corners; a kink to the last few pages with a heavy-ish crease on the back cover; a crease on the spine; previous owner’s name on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £7.00
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Weight without packaging: 322g.

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Contents: A way in; Historical background — beginnings — triumph of Orthodoxy & later developments; Biblical language — verbal & visual imagery; Biblical interpretation — allegory, & influence of Alexandrian Christians; Spirituality of the icon painters; Visual language of icons; Icons & their environment.
Appendix: Richard temple, The painting of icons.

Illustrations: 18 colour plates, each with facing commentary
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1 page
Index: yes

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