Tracing the Jerusalem Code : Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100-1536) / Kristin B. Aavitsland, Line M. Bonde

Aavitsland, Kristin B [MitwirkendeR] ; Aavitsland, Kristin B [HerausgeberIn] ; Bale, Anthony [MitwirkendeR] ; Bandlien, Bjørn [MitwirkendeR] ; Bonde, Line M [MitwirkendeR] ; Bonde, Line M [HerausgeberIn] ; Bysted, Ane L [MitwirkendeR] ; Ekroll, Øystein [MitwirkendeR] ; Eriksen, Stefka G [MitwirkendeR] ; Hagen, Kaja M. H [MitwirkendeR] ; Liepe, Lena [MitwirkendeR] ; Males, Mikael [MitwirkendeR] ; Markus, Kersti [MitwirkendeR] ; Myrvoll, Klaus Johan [MitwirkendeR] ; Oen, Maria H [MitwirkendeR] ; Oftestad, Eivor Andersen [MitwirkendeR] ; Pringle, Denys [MitwirkendeR] ; Raupp, Lukas [MitwirkendeR] ; Stang, Margrethe C [MitwirkendeR] ; Svenungsen, Pål Berg [MitwirkendeR] ; Syrstad Andås, Margrete [MitwirkendeR] ; Tjällén, Biörn [MitwirkendeR] ; Wangsgaard Jürgensen, Martin [MitwirkendeR] ; Zorgati, Ragnhild Johnsrud [MitwirkendeR] ; Øyrehagen Sunde, Jørn Ø [MitwirkendeR]

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Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter [[2021]], [2021]

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

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Erscheint auch als (EPUB) : ISBN 9783110636277

Erscheint auch als (print) : ISBN 9783110634853

978-3-11-063943-8

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-3-11-063627-7 (andere physische Form), 978-3-11-063485-3 (andere physische Form)

DOI: 10.1515/9783110639438

*RELIGION / Christianity / History

bisacsh: REL015000

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Editorial comments for all three volumes -- Prelude -- Introductions: Jerusalem in Medieval Scandinavia -- Chapter 1 Jerusalem: Navel of the Storyworld in Medieval Scandinavia -- Chapter 2 Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North -- Chapter 3 Translatio Templi: A Conceptual Condition for Jerusalem References in Medieval Scandinavia -- Part I: Kings, Crusaders, and Jerusalem Relics: Strategies of Legitimation, Models of Authority -- Chapter 4 Jerusalem and the Christianization of Norway -- Chapter 5 Scandinavian Holy Kings in the Nativity Church of Bethlehem -- Chapter 6 The Saint and the Wry-Neck: Norse Crusaders and the Second Crusade -- Chapter 7 Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam: A Journey to the Lost Jerusalem -- Chapter 8 Importing Jerusalem: Relics of the True Cross as Political Legitimation in Early Twelfth-Century Denmark and Norway -- Chapter 9 The Crown of Thorns and the Royal Office in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Scandinavia -- Part II: The Holy City: Travels, Perceptions, and Interactions -- Chapter 10 From Nidaros to Jerusalem; from Feginsbrekka to Mount Joy -- Chapter 11 Scandinavian Pilgrims and the Churches of the Holy Land in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- Chapter 12 Physical and Spiritual Travel across the Christian Storyworld: Leiðarvísir, an Old Norse Itinerary to Jerusalem -- Chapter 13 The Locus of Truth: St Birgitta of Sweden and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land -- Part III: Jerusalem Transposed and Reenacted: Townscapes, Churches, and Practices -- Chapter 14 St Olav, Nidaros, and Jerusalem -- Chapter 15 Jerusalem Commonplaces in Danish Rural Churches: What Urban Architecture Remembers -- Chapter 16 The Holy City in the Wilderness: Interpreting the Round Churches in Västergötland, Sweden -- Chapter 17 Entering the Temple of Jerusalem: Candlemas and Churching in the Lives of the Women of the North. A Study of Textual and Visual Sources -- Chapter 18 Heavenly Agent and Divine Disclosure: The Holy Cross at Borre -- Chapter 19 The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Church Interior -- Part IV: Navigating the Sacred Storyworld: Nordic Landscapes and Salvation History -- Chapter 20 Civitas Hierusalem famosisima: The Cross, the Orb, and the History of Salvation in the Medieval North -- Chapter 21 Imagining the Holy Land in the Old Norse World -- Chapter 22 Enemies of Christ in the Far North: Tales of Saracens, Jews and the Saami in Norwegian Medieval Painting -- Chapter 23 The Virtues Building Jerusalem: The Four Daughters of God and Their Long Journey to Norwegian Law in the Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 24 Zion in the North: Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Histories of Uppsala -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image - or rather the imagination - of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code to Christian cultures in Scandinavia. The first volume is dealing with the different notions of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages

 

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