Projections of Jerusalem in Europe

Abstract

The centrality of Jerusalem in Christian spirituality has been expressed in a spectrum of material and visual manifestations since biblical times. The present volume is a collection of studies centered on Jerusalem's physical presence in Europe, manifested through architecturally defined, spatial representations of the city's various sacred sites and monuments in Italy, Germany, England, Spain, the Netherlands, Russia and the Czech Republic. The essays analyze representations of Jerusalem by situating them within their urban and monastic milieus, tracking literary descriptions, and reconstructing the historical circumstances that impacted their creation and use. The prologue and epilogue contextualize the architectural translations of Jerusalem within wider discussions on film, photography, the cult of relics, and tourism, as well as physical and imagined pilgrimage. This collection of studies is related to Bianca Kühnel's 'Jerusalem Icons in the European Space', published by Peeters in its 'Art & Religion' series, 12.

Contents

Prologue: portable Jerusalem and the aesthetics of displacement / Alina Payne -- The Toulouse reliquary of the true cross and the transfer of holy power / Cynthia Hahn -- Translating Jerusalem into Anglo-Norman lordship / Laura Slater -- Jerusalem in the landscape of Catalan Romanesque architecture: from evocation to presence / Gerardo Boto and Marc Sureda -- The Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre in medieval Saxony: between cloistered community and lay parish / Lotem Pinchover -- In honorem Sanctae Crucis et Sancti Sepulchri: on the Eichstätt Schottenkirche and its significance / Shimrit Shriki-Hilber -- A singular experience of Jerusalem: St. Sebald Church in Nuremberg / Maria E. Dorninger -- Prague in Jerusalem and Jerusalem in Prague: Kristof Harant describes the Holy Sepulchre (1598) / Orit Ramon -- Gijsbert Raet's Jerusalem Chapel in late medieval Gouda / Claudia A. Jung -- The presence of Jerusalem in Mantua / Neta Bodner -- From Novgorod to Rome via Moscow: on translations of Jerusalem to Russia / Anastasia Keshman W. -- Epilogue: Jerusalem in the studio yard: Adrian Paci's Via Crucis / Kobi Ben-Meir.