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

Aavitsland; Kristin B.; Bonde; Line M.

 
9783110634853: Tracing the Jerusalem Code : Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3110634856 ISBN 13: 9783110634853
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2021

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

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



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

From the Back Cover

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.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3110634856
ISBN 13 
9783110634853
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
617