Jerusalem as narrative space
Subtitle: erzahlraum Jerusalem
By: edited by Annette Hoffmann [and] Gerhard Wolf
Series: Visualising the Middle Ages -- v. 6
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9789004226258
Subjects: In art; Bible; Narrative Criticism; Jerusalem in the Bible; Architecture; In literature
Description: Jerusalem, in her central role for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, became the setting for – or even the protagonist of – oral, written and pictorial narratives. These range from the Bible and Apocrypha, historical and hagiographical texts and legends to accounts of physical, imaginary or spiritual pilgrimage, and related images. Places in and around the city have been associated with narratives and vice versa. This collection of essays discusses the complex entanglements between Jerusalem, as a continuously redefined space, and her narratives, viewed from broad methodological and interdisciplinary perspectives. Studying the manifold ways in which narrative, space and place interact, is fundamental to the understanding of ‘loca sancta traditions’ and the processes of their location and translocation --
Notes: Includes index.