Tracing the Jerusalem Code

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

Kristin B. Aavitsland, Line M. Bonde

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9783110639438
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Teología y religión
• Subtopic: Historia del cristianismo

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.

Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes
Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536)
Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750)
Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Maps and Illustrations
• List of Abbreviations
• Editorial comments for all three volumes
• Prelude
• Introductions: Jerusalem in Medieval Scandinavia
• Chapter 1 Jerusalem: Navel of the Storyworld in Medieval Scandinavia
• Chapter 2 Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North
• Chapter 3 Translatio Templi: A Conceptual Condition for Jerusalem References in Medieval Scandinavia
• Part I: Kings, Crusaders, and Jerusalem Relics: Strategies of Legitimation, Models of Authority
• Chapter 4 Jerusalem and the Christianization of Norway
• Chapter 5 Scandinavian Holy Kings in the Nativity Church of Bethlehem
• Chapter 6 The Saint and the Wry-Neck: Norse Crusaders and the Second Crusade
• Chapter 7 Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam: A Journey to the Lost Jerusalem
• Chapter 8 Importing Jerusalem: Relics of the True Cross as Political Legitimation in Early Twelfth-Century Denmark and Norway
• Chapter 9 The Crown of Thorns and the Royal Office in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Scandinavia
• Part II: The Holy City: Travels, Perceptions, and Interactions
• Chapter 10 From Nidaros to Jerusalem; from Feginsbrekka to Mount Joy
• Chapter 11 Scandinavian Pilgrims and the Churches of the Holy Land in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
• Chapter 12 Physical and Spiritual Travel across the Christian Storyworld: Leiðarvísir, an Old Norse Itinerary to Jerusalem
• Chapter 13 The Locus of Truth: St Birgitta of Sweden and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
• Part III: Jerusalem Transposed and Reenacted: Townscapes, Churches, and Practices
• Chapter 14 St Olav, Nidaros, and Jerusalem
• Chapter 15 Jerusalem Commonplaces in Danish Rural Churches: What Urban Architecture Remembers
• Chapter 16 The Holy City in the Wilderness: Interpreting the Round Churches in Västergötland, Sweden
• Chapter 17 Entering the Temple of Jerusalem: Candlemas and Churching in the Lives of the Women of the North. A Study of Textual and Visual Sources
• Chapter 18 Heavenly Agent and Divine Disclosure: The Holy Cross at Borre
• Chapter 19 The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Church Interior
• Part IV: Navigating the Sacred Storyworld: Nordic Landscapes and Salvation History
• Chapter 20 Civitas Hierusalem famosisima: The Cross, the Orb, and the History of Salvation in the Medieval North
• Chapter 21 Imagining the Holy Land in the Old Norse World
• Chapter 22 Enemies of Christ in the Far North: Tales of Saracens, Jews and the Saami in Norwegian Medieval Painting
• Chapter 23 The Virtues Building Jerusalem: The Four Daughters of God and Their Long Journey to Norwegian Law in the Thirteenth Century
• Chapter 24 Zion in the North: Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Histories of Uppsala
• List of Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index of Manuscripts
• Index