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Item Number: 114983
Title: Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West
Author: Donkin, Lucy ; Hanna Vorholt (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780197265048
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, British Academy, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, ca. 350pp., 8 color, 60 b&w illus. Summary: Jerusalem was the object of intense study and devotion throughout the Middle Ages. This collection of essays illuminates ways in which the city was represented by Christians in Western Europe, c. 700-1500. Focusing on maps in manuscripts and early printed books, it also considers views and architectural replicas, and treats depictions of the Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre alongside those of Jerusalem as a whole. Authors draw on new research and a range of disciplinary perspectives to show how such depictions responded to developments in the West, as well as to the shifting political circumstances of Jerusalem and its wider region. One central theme is the relationship between text, image, and manuscript context, including discussion of images as scriptural exegesis and the place of schematic diagrams and plans in the presentation of knowledge. Another is the impact of trends in learning, such as the reception of Jewish scholarship, the move from monastic to university education, and the creation of yet wider audiences through mendicant preaching and the development of printing. The volume also examines the role of changing liturgical and devotional practices, including imagined pilgrimage and the mapping of Jerusalem onto European cities and local landscapes. Finally, it seeks to elucidate how two- and three-dimensional representations of the city both resulted from and prompted processes of mental visualisation. In this way, the volume is conceived as a contribution to manuscript studies, the history of cartography, visual studies, and the history of ideas. Contents: Thomas O'Loughlin: Adomnán's Plans in the Context of his Imagining 'the Most Famous City' ; Catherine Delano-Smith: The Exegetical Jerusalem: Maps and Plans for Ezekiel Chapters 40-48 ; Lesley Smith: The Imaginary Jerusalem of Nicholas of Lyra ; Mary Carruthers: The 'Pictures' of Jerusalem in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 156 ; Andrea Worm: 'Ista est Jerusalem'. Intertextuality and Visual Exegesis in the Representation of Jerusalem in Peter of Poitiers' Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi and Werner Rolevinck's Fasciculus Temporum ; Hanna Vorholt: Studying with maps: Jerusalem and the Holy Land in two thirteenth century manuscripts ; Evelyn Edson: Jerusalem under Siege: Marino Sanudo's Map of the Water Supply, 1320 ; Kathryn Rudy: An Illuminated English Guide to Pilgrimage in the Holy Land: Oxford, Queen's College, MS 357 ; Bianca Kühnel: Virtual Pilgrimages to Real Places: the Holy Landscapes. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 175)
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