Tracing the Jerusalem Code: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia - Ca. 1100–1536 (1) - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3110634856 ISBN 13: 9783110634853

Casa editrice: De Gruyter, 2021

Riassunto

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.

Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes
Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536)
Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750)
Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

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Informazioni sull'autore

Kristin B. Aavitsland und Line M. Bonde, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, Norwegen.

Kristin B. Aavitsland and Line M. Bonde, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, Norway.

Dalla quarta di copertina

This volume deals with Jerusalem during the medieval period. With conversion to Christianity around the dawn of the second millennium, the Scandinavian kingdoms embraced a cosmology centered on Jerusalem. The idea of Jerusalem as the ultimate goal of salvation history came to have a pervasive, structuring effect on the Scandinavian societies, and this book, divided into four parts, explores how. Part 1 investigates how Jerusalem provided political leaders with models of authority and strategies of legitimation. Part 2 explores real and imagined travels to Jerusalem and Outremer from Scandinavia. Part 3 presents projections of Jerusalem onto landscapes, church architecture, liturgy, and devotion. Part 4 examines historiographical, moral, and legal applications of a cosmology in which Jerusalem is the material pledge of an immaterial reality.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: De Gruyter
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3110634856
• ISBN 13: 9783110634853
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 350
• Redattore: Aavitsland Kristin B., Bonde Line M.
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