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Gateway to the Heavenly City : Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099-1187).

"Gateway to the Heavenly City presents an analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187. Sylvia Schein starts by exploring the changes in the Western image of Jerusalem, first as the goal of the cr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schein, Sylvia
Otros Autores: Duggan, Professor Anne J., Smith, Dr. Damian J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005.
Colección:Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Dedication
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • A Room of Her Own: Sylvia Schein's Contribution to Medieval History
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Jerusalem: Goal of the First Crusade
  • 2 The Conquest
  • A Divine Act
  • 3 'Inheritance of the Lord' : Justifications of Christian Rule in Jerusalem
  • 4 Rome, Babylon and Jerusalem: Papal Attitudes to Jerusalem
  • 5 From the 'City of the Holy Sepulchre' to the 'City of the Humanity of Christ'
  • 6 The City of the Old and the New Testaments
  • 7 Jerusalem in the Believer's Plan of Salvation
  • 8 Jerusalem
  • Centre of the World and Scene of the Last Days
  • 9 'The Terrible News': The Reaction of Christendom to the Fall of Jerusalem (1187)
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.