The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
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USDIn the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout this period, buildings were reinterpreted in relation to the mediating role of textual and pictorial representations that shaped the pilgrimage experience across expansive geographies. In this study, Kathryn Blair Moore challenges fundamental ideas within architectural history regarding the origins and significance of European recreations of buildings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth. From these conceptual foundations, she traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts, from the First Crusade and the emergence of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to the anti-Islamic crusade movements of the Renaissance, as well as the Reformation.
- Proposes a new geographical scope for the origins and development of European architectural history, a new conceptualization of symbolism in Christian architecture, and a new theory of the relationship between books and buildings in the context of pilgrimage to the Christian Holy Land
- Situates the creation and reception of European architecture in the context of antagonism between Christianity and Islam
- Explores the mediated nature of architectural experience in the context of pilgrimage
Reviews & endorsements
'Most significantly, Moore focuses on the varying perceptions about these architectural landmarks over time and the ways they were visualized in different artistic media. Well written, including ample notes, and illustrated with images. Highly Recommended.' J. Pollini, Choice
'The book provides a first attempt at a general synthesis of a topic that was never discussed from a longue durée perspective. The author politely reacts against the tendency, still underlying many art-historical studies following a famous article by Richard Krautheimer, to consider all buildings that came to be described in medieval and early modern sources as inspired by or stemming directly from the Jerusalem Holy Sepulcher and other loca sancta churches as generic, symbolic, or basically inaccurate replicas of their archetypes.' Michele Bacci, The American Historical Review
Product details
February 2017Hardback
9781107139084
436 pages
287 × 223 × 30 mm
1.73kg
223 b/w illus. 22 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I. The Symbolization of Holy Land Architecture:
- 1. Fragmentary inscriptions and material presence
- 2. Rome and Constantinople
- 3. Architectural inscriptions in Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis
- 4. Recreations of the Holy Sepulcher and Benedictine monasticism
- Part II. Triumphal Restoration and Recreation in the Crusades:
- 5. The Crusader conquest and triumphal recreation
- 6. The restoration of the Temple of Solomon
- 7. Recreating the city of Jerusalem
- 8. True portraits/true Jerusalems
- Part III. The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land:
- 9. Formation of the Franciscan Custody
- 10. Assisi as a New Jerusalem
- 11. Franciscan books on the Holy Land pilgrimage
- 12. Signs of Christianity and Islam
- Part IV. Imagined Pilgrimages and Crusades in the Renaissance:
- 13. The ephemeral architecture of Philip the Good's crusading ambitions
- 14. The conspicuous nobility of dedication to Holy Land architecture
- 15. The Franciscan Order, papacy, and symbolic possession of the Holy Land
- 16. Protestant Reformation, Ottoman conquest, and Catholic renewal after 1517
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Notes.
