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

Tracing the Jerusalem Code: Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536)
ISBN-10
3110639432
ISBN-13
9783110639438
Series
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
Category
Religion
Pages
637
Language
English
Published
2021-04-19
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Authors
Kristin B. Aavitsland, Line M. Bonde

Description

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)

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