Medieval Jerusalem
Author: Jacob Lassner
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2017-04-27
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0472130366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling consideration of Jerusalem during the formative period of Islamic civilization
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Medieval Jerusalem and Islamic Worship
Author: Amikam Elad
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789004100107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Medieval Jerusalem and Islamic Worship" provides fascinating new information about the Muslim holy places in Jerusalem, rituals and pilgrimage to these places during the early Muslim period. It is based primarily on early primary Arabic sources, many of which have not yet been published.
Jerusalem, 1000–1400
Author: Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2016-09-14
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1588395987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center, home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant voices from many lands, including Persians, Turks, Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Copts, Ethiopians, Indians, and Europeans, passed in the narrow streets of a city not much larger than midtown Manhattan. Patrons, artists, pilgrims, poets, and scholars from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings, creating luxury goods for its residents, and praising its merits. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances—from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. So strong a magnet was Jerusalem that it drew out the creative imagination of even those separated from it by great distance, from as far north as Scandinavia to as far east as present-day China. This publication is the first to define these four centuries as a singularly creative moment in a singularly complex city. Through absorbing essays and incisive discussions of nearly 200 works of art, Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven explores not only the meaning of the city to its many faiths and its importance as a destination for tourists and pilgrims but also the aesthetic strands that enhanced and enlivened the medieval city that served as the crossroads of the known world.
Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Mary Boyle
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1843845806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do the bursar of Eton College, a canon of Mainz Cathedral, a young knight from near Cologne, and a Kentish nobleman's chaplain have in common? Two Germans, residents of the Holy Roman Empire, and two Englishmen, just as the western horizons of the known world were beginning to expand. These four men - William Wey, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Arnold von Harff, and Thomas Larke - are amongst the thousands of western Christians who undertook the arduous journey to the Holy Land in the decades immediately before the Reformation. More importantly, they are members of a much more select group: those who left written accounts of their travels, for the journey to Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages took place not only in the physical world, but also in the mind and on the page. Pilgrim authors contended in different ways with the collision between fifteenth-century reality and the static textual Jerusalem, as they encountered the genuinely multi-religious Middle East. This book examines the international literary phenomenon of the Jerusalem pilgrimage through the prism of these four writers. It explores the process of collective and individual identity construction, as pilgrims came into contact with members of other religious traditions in the course of the expression of their own; engages with the uneasy relationship between curiosity and pilgrimage; and investigates both the relevance of genre and the advent of print to the development of pilgrimage writing. Ultimately pilgrimage is revealed as a conceptual space with a near-liturgical status, unrestricted by geographical boundaries and accessible both literally and virtually.
Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative
Author: Suzanne M. Yeager
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-11-06
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 052187792X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original study of the political, religious and literary uses of representations of the holy city in the fourteenth century.
Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages
Author: Nicole Chareyron
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005-03-02
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0231529619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Every man who undertakes the journey to the Our Lord's Sepulcher needs three sacks: a sack of patience, a sack of silver, and a sack of faith."—Symon Semeonis, an Irish medieval pilgrim As medieval pilgrims made their way to the places where Jesus Christ lived and suffered, they experienced, among other things: holy sites, the majesty of the Egyptian pyramids (often referred to as the "Pharaoh's granaries"), dips in the Dead Sea, unfamiliar desert landscapes, the perils of traveling along the Nile, the customs of their Muslim hosts, Barbary pirates, lice, inconsiderate traveling companions, and a variety of difficulties, both great and small. In this richly detailed study, Nicole Chareyron draws on more than one hundred firsthand accounts to consider the journeys and worldviews of medieval pilgrims. Her work brings the reader into vivid, intimate contact with the pilgrims' thoughts and emotions as they made the frequently difficult pilgrimage to the Holy Land and back home again. Unlike the knights, princes, and soldiers of the Crusades, who traveled to the Holy Land for the purpose of reclaiming it for Christendom, these subsequent pilgrims of various nationalities, professions, and social classes were motivated by both religious piety and personal curiosity. The travelers not only wrote journals and memoirs for themselves but also to convey to others the majesty and strangeness of distant lands. In their accounts, the pilgrims relate their sense of astonishment, pity, admiration, and disappointment with humor and a touching sincerity and honesty. These writings also reveal the complex interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Holy Land. Throughout their journey, pilgrims confronted occasionally hostile Muslim administrators (who controlled access to many holy sites), Bedouin tribes, Jews, and Turks. Chareyron considers the pilgrims' conflicted, frequently simplistic, views of their Muslim hosts and their social and religious practices.
Where Heaven Touches Earth
Author: Dovid Rossoff
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9780873068796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaints a panorama of Jerusalem in all her glory, from medieval times and the era of the Crusaders, through the poverty-stricken Jewish communities of the last centuries and their strength and heroism, ending with a look at Jerusalem today. Carefully researched, with stories, biographies, an index, charts, and photographs.
Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West
Author: Lucy Donkin
Publisher: OUP/British Academy
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780197265048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illuminates ways in which Jerusalem was represented in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, c. 700-1500. Focusing on maps and plans 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 the city as a whole.
Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem
Author: Ann Raftery Meyer
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780859917964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chantry movement in late medieval England is situated in this context, and leads to a demonstration of the movement's associations with the highly-wrought poem Pearl and its companion poems; the book analyses Pearl as medieval architecture, offering fresh perspectives on its elaborate construction and historical context."--BOOK JACKET.
Defending the City of God
Author: Sharan Newman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-04-29
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 113727865X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A fresh and highly accessible history of the Holy Lands during the Middle Ages, revealing a rich and diverse culture and the fight to save Jerusalem from the Crusaders"--
