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Tracing the Jerusalem Code
Volume 1: The Holy City
Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536)
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Edited by:
Kristin B. Aavitsland
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
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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)
Author / Editor information
Kristin B. Aavitsland and Line M. Bonde, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, Norway.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Maps and Illustrations
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List of Abbreviations
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Editorial comments for all three volumes
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Prelude
1 - Introductions: Jerusalem in Medieval Scandinavia
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Chapter 1 Jerusalem: Navel of the Storyworld in Medieval Scandinavia
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Chapter 2 Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North
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Chapter 3 Translatio Templi: A Conceptual Condition for Jerusalem References in Medieval Scandinavia
49 - Part I: Kings, Crusaders, and Jerusalem Relics: Strategies of Legitimation, Models of Authority
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Chapter 4 Jerusalem and the Christianization of Norway
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Chapter 5 Scandinavian Holy Kings in the Nativity Church of Bethlehem
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Chapter 6 The Saint and the Wry-Neck: Norse Crusaders and the Second Crusade
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Chapter 7 Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam: A Journey to the Lost Jerusalem
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Chapter 8 Importing Jerusalem: Relics of the True Cross as Political Legitimation in Early Twelfth-Century Denmark and Norway
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Chapter 9 The Crown of Thorns and the Royal Office in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Scandinavia
166 - Part II: The Holy City: Travels, Perceptions, and Interactions
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Chapter 10 From Nidaros to Jerusalem; from Feginsbrekka to Mount Joy
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Chapter 11 Scandinavian Pilgrims and the Churches of the Holy Land in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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Chapter 12 Physical and Spiritual Travel across the Christian Storyworld: Leiðarvísir, an Old Norse Itinerary to Jerusalem
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Chapter 13 The Locus of Truth: St Birgitta of Sweden and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
245 - Part III: Jerusalem Transposed and Reenacted: Townscapes, Churches, and Practices
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Chapter 14 St Olav, Nidaros, and Jerusalem
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Chapter 15 Jerusalem Commonplaces in Danish Rural Churches: What Urban Architecture Remembers
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Chapter 16 The Holy City in the Wilderness: Interpreting the Round Churches in Västergötland, Sweden
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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
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Chapter 18 Heavenly Agent and Divine Disclosure: The Holy Cross at Borre
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Chapter 19 The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Church Interior
394 - Part IV: Navigating the Sacred Storyworld: Nordic Landscapes and Salvation History
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Chapter 20 Civitas Hierusalem famosisima: The Cross, the Orb, and the History of Salvation in the Medieval North
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Chapter 21 Imagining the Holy Land in the Old Norse World
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Chapter 22 Enemies of Christ in the Far North: Tales of Saracens, Jews and the Saami in Norwegian Medieval Painting
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Chapter 23 The Virtues Building Jerusalem: The Four Daughters of God and Their Long Journey to Norwegian Law in the Thirteenth Century
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Chapter 24 Zion in the North: Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Histories of Uppsala
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List of Contributors
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Bibliography
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Index of Manuscripts
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Index
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
April 19, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110639438
Hardcover published on:
April 19, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110634853
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
20
Main content:
617
Illustrations:
15
Coloured Illustrations:
97
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