This paper probes the history of the Temple Mount complex during the British Mandate for Palestine. Approaching this sacred space from three different perspectives--British, Arab, and Jewish--the paper examines how people and events surrounding the site contributed to the evolut…
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From 1346-50, the Franciscan Niccolò da Poggibonsi spent four years traveling in the Christian Holy Land, resulting in the first vernacular, fully illustrated pilgrimage account: the Libro d'Oltramare. The dissertation examines the historical importance of four previously unstud…
Traditionally, a study of crusading literature has always taken the approach of setting "east" against "west," a model which presents the crusades as a fragmented series of events, and a methodology which ultimately provides a fractional study of the textual traditions at hand. …
"The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the Convent of …
The Church of Jerusalem, the 'mother of the churches of God', influenced all of Christendom before it underwent multiple captivities between the eighth and thirteenth centuries: first, political subjugation to Arab Islamic forces, then displacement of Greek-praying Christians by…
"The Church of Jerusalem, the 'mother of the churches of God', influenced all of Christendom before it underwent multiple captivities between the eighth and thirteenth centuries: first, political subjugation to Arab Islamic forces, then displacement of Greek-praying Christians b…
Introduction: history of the research -- Natural and man-made city limits -- The Chalcolithic period and the Bronze Age -- The Iron Age -- The Babylonian and Persian periods -- The Hellenistic period -- The Roman period -- The Byzantine period -- The early Islamic period -- The …
In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is structured chronologically, explori…
In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is structured chronologically, explori…
Grief and the Cross: Popular Devotion and Passion Piety from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages , examines the earliest Christian devotions to the suffering Christ and lamenting Mary, referred to as Passion Piety. These devotions have traditionally been seen as a high medie…
This study identifies and examines the earliest layers of archaeological and textual evidence concerning the reconstruction of Jerusalem in the Achaemenid Persian Period (550 – 330 BCE) to illuminate the historical and ideological processes by which the city regained its promine…