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

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...

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Main Author: Aavitsland, Kristin B.
Contributors: Bonde, Line M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
In:Year: 2021
Further subjects:B Crusades
B Christian Theology
B Religion & Politics
B History of religion
B Pilgrimage
B Regional Studies
B Christianity
B Christianity in Scandinavia
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (617 p.)
ISBN:3110639475
Access:Open Access
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 20.500.12854/71481