The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance

Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.

Kathryn Blair Moore (Author)

9781107139084, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 February 2017

436 pages, 223 b/w illus. 22 colour illus.
28.7 x 22.3 x 3 cm, 1.73 kg

'The book provides a first attempt at a general synthesis of a topic that was never discussed from a longue durée perspective. The author politely reacts against the tendency, still underlying many art-historical studies following a famous article by Richard Krautheimer, to consider all buildings that came to be described in medieval and early modern sources as inspired by or stemming directly from the Jerusalem Holy Sepulcher and other loca sancta churches as generic, symbolic, or basically inaccurate replicas of their archetypes.' Michele Bacci, The American Historical Review

In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout this period, buildings were reinterpreted in relation to the mediating role of textual and pictorial representations that shaped the pilgrimage experience across expansive geographies. In this study, Kathryn Blair Moore challenges fundamental ideas within architectural history regarding the origins and significance of European recreations of buildings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth. From these conceptual foundations, she traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts, from the First Crusade and the emergence of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to the anti-Islamic crusade movements of the Renaissance, as well as the Reformation.

Preface
Abbreviations
List of illustrations
Introduction
Part I. The Symbolization of Holy Land Architecture: 1. Fragmentary inscriptions and material presence
2. Rome and Constantinople
3. Architectural inscriptions in Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis
4. Recreations of the Holy Sepulcher and Benedictine monasticism
Part II. Triumphal Restoration and Recreation in the Crusades: 5. The Crusader conquest and triumphal recreation
6. The restoration of the Temple of Solomon
7. Recreating the city of Jerusalem
8. True portraits/true Jerusalems
Part III. The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: 9. Formation of the Franciscan Custody
10. Assisi as a New Jerusalem
11. Franciscan books on the Holy Land pilgrimage
12. Signs of Christianity and Islam
Part IV. Imagined Pilgrimages and Crusades in the Renaissance: 13. The ephemeral architecture of Philip the Good's crusading ambitions
14. The conspicuous nobility of dedication to Holy Land architecture
15. The Franciscan Order, papacy, and symbolic possession of the Holy Land
16. Protestant Reformation, Ottoman conquest, and Catholic renewal after 1517
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes.

Subject Areas: Biblical archaeology [HDDH], Archaeology by period / region [HDD], Archaeology [HD], Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA], History: earliest times to present day [HBL], History of other lands [HBJQ], European history [HBJD]