Tracing the Jerusalem Code : Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100-1536) /

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image - or rather the imagination - of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a...

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Otros Autores: Aavitsland, Kristin B. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Bale, Anthony (Contribuidor), Bandlien, Bjørn (Contribuidor), Bonde, Line M. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Bysted, Ane L. (Contribuidor), Ekroll, Øystein (Contribuidor), Eriksen, Stefka G. (Contribuidor), Hagen, Kaja M. H. (Contribuidor), Liepe, Lena (Contribuidor), Males, Mikael (Contribuidor), Markus, Kersti (Contribuidor), Myrvoll, Klaus Johan (Contribuidor), Oen, Maria H. (Contribuidor), Oftestad, Eivor Andersen (Contribuidor), Pringle, Denys (Contribuidor), Raupp, Lukas (Contribuidor), Stang, Margrethe C. (Contribuidor), Svenungsen, Pål Berg (Contribuidor), Syrstad Andås, Margrete (Contribuidor), Tjällén, Biörn (Contribuidor), Wangsgaard Jürgensen, Martin (Contribuidor), Zorgati, Ragnhild Johnsrud (Contribuidor), Øyrehagen Sunde, Jørn Ø (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
Temas:
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christianity in Scandinavia.
Crusades.
Pilgrimage.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps and Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Editorial comments for all three volumes
  • Prelude
  • Introductions: Jerusalem in Medieval Scandinavia
  • Chapter 1 Jerusalem: Navel of the Storyworld in Medieval Scandinavia
  • Chapter 2 Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North
  • Chapter 3 Translatio Templi: A Conceptual Condition for Jerusalem References in Medieval Scandinavia
  • Part I: Kings, Crusaders, and Jerusalem Relics: Strategies of Legitimation, Models of Authority
  • Chapter 4 Jerusalem and the Christianization of Norway
  • Chapter 5 Scandinavian Holy Kings in the Nativity Church of Bethlehem
  • Chapter 6 The Saint and the Wry-Neck: Norse Crusaders and the Second Crusade
  • Chapter 7 Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam: A Journey to the Lost Jerusalem
  • Chapter 8 Importing Jerusalem: Relics of the True Cross as Political Legitimation in Early Twelfth-Century Denmark and Norway
  • Chapter 9 The Crown of Thorns and the Royal Office in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Scandinavia
  • Part II: The Holy City: Travels, Perceptions, and Interactions
  • Chapter 10 From Nidaros to Jerusalem; from Feginsbrekka to Mount Joy
  • Chapter 11 Scandinavian Pilgrims and the Churches of the Holy Land in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • Chapter 12 Physical and Spiritual Travel across the Christian Storyworld: Leiðarvísir, an Old Norse Itinerary to Jerusalem
  • Chapter 13 The Locus of Truth: St Birgitta of Sweden and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
  • Part III: Jerusalem Transposed and Reenacted: Townscapes, Churches, and Practices
  • Chapter 14 St Olav, Nidaros, and Jerusalem
  • Chapter 15 Jerusalem Commonplaces in Danish Rural Churches: What Urban Architecture Remembers
  • Chapter 16 The Holy City in the Wilderness: Interpreting the Round Churches in Västergötland, Sweden
  • Chapter 17 Entering the Temple of Jerusalem: Candlemas and Churching in the Lives of the Women of the North. A Study of Textual and Visual Sources
  • Chapter 18 Heavenly Agent and Divine Disclosure: The Holy Cross at Borre
  • Chapter 19 The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Church Interior
  • Part IV: Navigating the Sacred Storyworld: Nordic Landscapes and Salvation History
  • Chapter 20 Civitas Hierusalem famosisima: The Cross, the Orb, and the History of Salvation in the Medieval North
  • Chapter 21 Imagining the Holy Land in the Old Norse World
  • Chapter 22 Enemies of Christ in the Far North: Tales of Saracens, Jews and the Saami in Norwegian Medieval Painting
  • Chapter 23 The Virtues Building Jerusalem: The Four Daughters of God and Their Long Journey to Norwegian Law in the Thirteenth Century
  • Chapter 24 Zion in the North: Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Histories of Uppsala
  • List of Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Manuscripts
  • Index

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