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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aavitsland, Kristin B.
Other Authors: Bonde, Line M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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.

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