The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land : Reception from Late Antiquity Through the Renaissance (Hardcover)

Preface; Abbreviations; List of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. The Symbolization of Holy Land Architecture: 1. Fragmentary inscriptions and material presence; 2. Rome and Constantinople; 3. Architectural inscriptions in Adomnan's De Locis Sanctis; 4. Recreations of the Holy Sepulcher and Benedictine monasticism; Part II. Triumphal Restoration and Recreation in the Crusades: 5. The Crusader conquest and triumphal recreation; 6. The restoration of the Temple of Solomon; 7. Recreating the city of Jerusalem; 8. True portraits/true Jerusalems; Part III. The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: 9. Formation of the Franciscan Custody; 10. Assisi as a New Jerusalem; 11. Franciscan books on the Holy Land pilgrimage; 12. Signs of Christianity and Islam; Part IV. Imagined Pilgrimages and Crusades in the Renaissance: 13. The ephemeral architecture of Philip the Good's crusading ambitions; 14. The conspicuous nobility of dedication to Holy Land architecture; 15. The Franciscan Order, papacy, and symbolic possession of the Holy Land; 16. Protestant Reformation, Ottoman conquest, and Catholic renewal after 1517; Epilogue; Bibliography; Notes.