Christian maps of the Holy Land : images and meanings / by Pnina Arad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arad, Pnina, Author.

Series:

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; 1378-8779 v. 28.

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, 1378-8779 ; volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Europe--History.

Cartography.

Geography, Medieval.

Palestine--Historical geography.

Palestine.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in art.

Middle East--Historical geography.

Middle East.

Christian antiquities--Palestine.

Christian antiquities.

Madaba map.

Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497. Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam.

Breydenbach, Bernhard von.

Sacred space--Middle East--Maps--History.

Sacred space.

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500.

Christian art and symbolism.

Religion and geography.

Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam (Breydenbach, Bernhard von).

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.

Historical geography.

Europe.

Middle East--Palestine.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xxiv, 176 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2020]

Summary:

"This book offers a way of reading maps of the Holy Land as visual imagery with religious connotations. Through a corpus of representative examples created between the sixth and the nineteenth centuries, it studies the maps as iconic imagery of an iconic landscape and analyses their strategies to manifest the spiritual quality of the biblical topography, to support religious tenets, and to construct and preserve cultural memory. Maps of the Holy Land have thus far been studied with methodologies such as cartography and historical geography, while the main question addressed was the reliability of the maps as cartographic documents. Through another perspective and using the methodology of visual studies, this book reveals that maps of the Holy Land constructed religious messages and were significant instruments through which different Christian cultures (Byzantine, Catholic, Protestant, and Greek Orthodox) shaped their religious identities. It does not seek to ascertain how the maps delivered geographical information, but rather how they utilized the geographical information in formulating religious and cultural values. Through its examination of maps of the Holy Land, this book thus explores both Christian visual culture and Christian spirituality throughout the centuries"-- Page 4 of cover.

This book offers a way of reading maps of the Holy Land as visual imagery with religious connotations. Through a corpus of representative examples created between the sixth and the nineteenth centuries, it studies the maps as iconic imagery of an iconic landscape and analyses their strategies to manifest the spiritual quality of the biblical topography, to support religious tenets, and to construct and preserve cultural memory.00Maps of the Holy Land have thus far been studied with methodologies such as cartography and historical geography, while the main question addressed was the reliability of the maps as cartographic documents. Through another perspective and using the methodology of visual studies, this book reveals that maps of the Holy Land constructed religious messages and were significant instruments through which different Christian cultures (Byzantine, Catholic, Protestant, and Greek Orthodox) shaped their religious identities. It does not seek to ascertain how the maps delivered geographical information, but rather how they utilized the geographical information in formulating religious and cultural values.00Through its examination of maps of the Holy Land, this book thus explores both Christian visual culture and Christian spirituality throughout the centuries.

"This book offers a way of reading maps of the Holy Land as visual imagery with religious connotations. Through a corpus of representative examples created between the sixth and the nineteenth centuries, it studies the maps as iconic imagery of an iconic landscape and analyses their strategies to manifest the spiritual quality of the biblical topography, to support religious tenets, and to construct and preserve cultural memory. Maps of the Holy Land have thus far been studied with methodologies such as cartography and historical geography, while the main question addressed was the reliability of the maps as cartographic documents. Through another perspective and using the methodology of visual studies, this book reveals that maps of the Holy Land constructed religious messages and were significant instruments through which different Christian cultures (Byzantine, Catholic, Protestant, and Greek Orthodox) shaped their religious identities. It does not seek to ascertain how the maps delivered geographical information, but rather how they utilized the geographical information in formulating religious and cultural values. Through its examination of maps of the Holy Land, this book thus explores both Christian visual culture and Christian spirituality throughout the centuries."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Iconic landscape, iconic map

Part II. The map of the Holy Land in the Latin Christian West

Part III. Between pilgrimage and scripture, Catholicism and Protestantism

Part IV. Map as icon: Greek Orthodox proskynetaria from the Ottoman period

Appendices. I. Inscriptions on the Madaba map ; II. Sites mentioned in the pilgrimage guide Gesta Francorum Iherusalem expugnatium ; III. Inscriptions on three twelfth-century maps of the Holy Land ; IV. Inscriptions on London, British Library, MS Add. 27376, fols. 188v-189r ; V. A list of places in William Wey's pilgrimage account ; VI. Sites in and around Jerusalem in Bernhard von Breydenbach's map of the Holy Land.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-172) and indexes.

ISBN:

9782503585260

2503585264

OCLC:

1138604347