Writing the Holy Land

• Verfasst von: Campopiano, Michele [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Writing the Holy Land
• Titelzusatz: the Franciscans of Mount Zion and the construction of a cultural memory, 1300-1550
• Verf.angabe: Michele Campopiano
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: xvii, 438 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The New Middle Ages
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 381-421
• ISBN: 978-3-030-52773-0
• ISBN: 978-3-030-52776-1
• Schlagwörter: (g)Jerusalem / (k)Franziskaner / (z)Geschichte 1300-1550
• Schlagwörter: (g)Palästina / (k)Franziskaner / (s)Heiligtum / (s)Geschichtsschreibung / (z)Geschichte 1300-1550
• Schlagwörter: (k)Franziskaner / Custodia Terræ Sanctæ
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Campopiano, Michele: Writing the Holy Land. - Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021. - 1 online resource (xvii, 438 pages)
• RVK-Notation: NV 5230
• RVK-Notation: BN 2410
• K10plus-PPN: 1733210768

Abstract

"The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the Convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, who welcomed and guided pilgrims. This book analyses this construction of a shared memory based on the continuous availability of these texts in the Franciscan library of Mount Zion, where they were copied and adapted to respond to new historical contexts. This book shows how the Franciscans developed a representation of the Holy Land by elaborating on its history and describing its religious groups and the geography of the region. This representation circulated among pilgrims and influenced how contemporaries imagined the Holy Land"--