The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, 2015
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- Title
- The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History
- Author
- Jütte (Jutte), Daniel
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300211082
- ISBN 13
- 9780300211085
Exploring a chapter not yet probed in the cultural history of the West 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. J tte reveals how doors have served as sites of power exclusion and inclusion--and by extension as metaphors for salvation--in the course of Western history.
This book makes it clear that doors more than any other parts of the house are the objects onto which we project our ideas of and anxieties about security privacy and shelter. Without doors of course houses could not exist. But even though we each walk through doorways well over a hundred times a day we typically pay little attention to the doors we encounter. We regard them simply as a means of entering or leaving a building or room. Yet when our doors stop working as they should--when we find that we cannot lock or open them for instance--we react with discomfort and anxiety.
Drawing on a wide range of archival literary and visual sources as well as on research literature across various disciplines and languages J tte 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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