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This book illuminates ways in which Jerusalem was represented in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, c. 700-1500. Focusing on maps and plans in manuscripts and early printed books, it also considers views and architectural replicas, and treats depictions of the Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre alongside those of the city as a whole.
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Lucy Donkin is a University Lecturer at the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge. She received her MA and PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and has held a Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome, an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College, Oxford. She has taught Medieval History and Art History at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her research explores aspects of medieval visual culture and perceptions of place, with particular reference to Italy.
Hanna Vorholt is a full-time research consultant at the Warburg Institute for the ERC-funded project 'Projections of Jerusalem in Europe', and an affiliated lecturer at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. She completed her MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and her PhD thesis at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Previously, she worked as Research Associate at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and as Project Officer at the British Library; she has held a Munby Fellowship in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library, and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Warburg Institute. Her research concentrates on processes of knowledge transfer through illuminated manuscripts and on Western medieval maps of Jerusalem.
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This book illuminates ways in which Jerusalem was represented in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, c. 700-1500. Focusing on maps and plans in manuscripts and early printed books, it also considers views and architectural replicas, and treats depictions of the Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre alongside those of the city as a whole.
Testo aggiuntivo
offers a stimulating technical vade mecum to current research and thinking about the interaction of the visual and the written, and their relationship within the religious culture of the medieval west. It is also very well served by a weight of clear, well-judged black-and-white illustrations and a collection of outstandingly well reproduced colour plates.
