The Holy Land, holy lands, and Christian history : papers read at the 1998 Summer Meeting and the 1999 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society / edited by R.N. Swanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting (1998 : Warwick University)

Contributor:

Swanson, R. N. (Robert Norman)

Ecclesiastical History Society. Winter Meeting London)

Series:

Studies in church history ; 36.

Studies in church history ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine--In Christianity.

Palestine.

Palestine--Church history.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 397 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, U.K. ; Rochester, NY : Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by Boydell Press, 2000.

Summary:

Studies of the significance of the 'Holy Land', real and idealised, in Christian history.

Contents:

The early development of church architecture in Syria and Jordan, c. 300-c. 750 / Hugh Kennedy

The itinerary of Egeria : reliving the Bible in fourth-century Palestine / E.D. Hunt

Secular men and women : Egeria's lay congregation in Jerusalem / Rachel Moriarty

Palestine under the Arabs, 650-750 : the crucible of Byzantine orthodoxy / Andrew Louth

Palestine in the aftermath of the Arab conquest : the earliest Latin account / Thomas O'Loughlin

Memorials of the Holy Places and blessings from the East : devotion to Jerusalem before the Crusades / Colin Morris

History and memory as factors in Greek Orthodox pilgrimage to the Holy Land under Crusader rule / Andrew Jotischky

Ideas of Crusade and Holy War in De expugnatione Lyxbonensi (The conquest of Lisbon) / Jonathan Phillips

Holy Land, holy lance : religious ideas in the Chanson d'Antioche /Susan B. Edgington

'Serpent in the dust : sparrow on the housetop' : attitudes to Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the circle of Innocent III / Brenda Bolton

The role of the Holy Land for the early followers of Joachim of Fiore / Stephen Wessley

Gregory IX, Frederick II, and the liberation of the Holy Land, 1230-9 / Björn Weiler

Our Lady of Saidnaiya : an Orthodox shrine revered by Muslims and Knights Templar at the time of the Crusades / Bernard Hamilton

Crusading proposals in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / A.R. Leopold

Holy Land or Holy Lands? : Palestine and the Catholic West in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance / Norman Housley

The Holy Land in old Russian culture / Richard M. Price

Magyar Judah : constructing a new Canaan in Eastern Europe / Graeme Murdock

Rebuilding Solomon's temple? : the architecture of Calvinism / Andrew Spicer

Transplanting the Holy Land : diggers, fifth monarchists, and the New Israel / Bernard Capp

City on a hill : American exceptionalism and the elect nation / J.R. Oldfield

Milman's History of the Jews : a real place with real people / Alistair Mason

Thomas Cook, Holy Land pilgrims, and the dawn of the modern tourist industry / Timothy Larsen

Archbishop Lang's visit to the Holy Land in 1931 / Garth Turner

The Vatican, Palestinian Christians, Israel, and Jerusalem : religion, politics, diplomacy, and Holy Places, 1945-1950 / Anthony O'Mahony

Palestinian Christians : realities and hopes / Bernard Sabella.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0952973359

OCLC:

44039566