Research Catalog

Title

Imagining Jerusalem in the medieval West / edited by Lucy Donkin & Hanna Vorholt.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Donkin, Lucy
• Vorholt, Hanna
• British Academy.
• University College (University of Oxford)
• Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West (2009 : Oxford, Great Britain)

Description

xxi, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimiles (some color), illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume 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.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 175

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 175.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature > Congresses
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism > Congresses
• Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
• Jerusalem in Christianity
• Literature
• Literature, Medieval
• Jerusalem Motiv
• Litteratur > historia > medeltiden
• Kartor > medeltiden
• Jerusalem > In literature > Congresses
• Jerusalem > In Christianity > Congresses
• Middle East > Jerusalem
• Jerusalem (Israel) > In Christianity > Congresses
• Jerusalem (Israel) > In literature > Congresses
• Jerusalem > i litteraturen

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Papers presented at a conference held at University College, Oxford, on Mar. 18-19, 2009.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Adomnán's plans in the context of his imagining "the most famous city" / Thomas O'Loughlin -- The exegetical Jerusalem : maps and plans for Ezekiel chapters 40-48 / Catherine Delano-Smith -- The imaginary Jerusalem of Nicholas of Lyra / Lesley Smith -- The "pictures" of Jerusalem in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 156 / Mary Carruthers -- "Ista est Jerusalem" : intertextuality and visual exegesis in Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi and Werner Rolevinck's Fasciculus temporum / Andrea Worm -- Studying with maps : Jerusalem and the Holy Land in two thirteenth-century manuscripts / Hanna Vorholt -- Jerusalem under siege : Marino Sanudo's map of the water supply, 1320 / Evelyn Edson -- An illuminated English guide to pilgrimage in the Holy Land : Oxford, Queen's College, MS 357 / Kathryn M. Rudy -- Virtual pilgrimages to real places : the holy landscapes / Bianca Kühnel.

ISBN

• 9780197265048
• 0197265049

LCCN

2012450094

OCLC

• ocn761379358
• 761379358
• SCSB-1667421

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library