Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500 (Paperback, 1)

Table of ContentsForewordCaroline Walker BynumNatural Materials, Place and RepresentationRenana Bartal, Neta Bodner and Bianca KuhnelI Collecting and Collections1. Earth, Stone, Water and Oil: Objects of Veneration in Holy Land Travel Narratives Ora Limor2. Eleventh-Century Relic Collections and the Holy LandJulia M. H. Smith3. The Popes and the Loca Sancta of Jerusalem: Relic Practice and Relic Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Muslim Conquest Manfred Luchterhandt4. Jerusalem Refracted: Geographies of the True Cross in Late AntiquityLaura VeneskeyII Agents of Translation 5. Una processione da farsi ogni anno con una messa solenne: Reception of Stone Relics from the Holy Land in Renaissance RagusaTanja Tr?ka6. The Stone of Grace in the Gareja Desert, GeorgiaZaza Skhirtladze7. Earth from Elsewhere: Burial in Terra Sancta beyond the Holy LandLucy Donkin8. Materiality and Liminality: Nonmimetic Evocations of Jerusalem along the Venetian Sea Routes to the Holy LandMichele BacciIII Instillation and Enactment9. Rocks of Jerusalem: Bringing the Holy Land HomeElina Gertsman and Asa Simon Mittman10. Image, Epigram, and Nature in Middle Byzantine Personal DevotionBrad Hostetler11. Place and Surface: Golgotha in Late Medieval Bruges Nadine Mai12. Moving Stones: On the Columns of the Dome of the Rock, Their History and MeaningLawrence Nees 13. Christ’s Unction and the Material Realization of a Stone in JerusalemYamit Rachman-SchrireIV Contemporary Re-enactment14. Susan Hiller’s Homages to Joseph Beuys: Mystics, Cult and Anthropology Kobi Ben-Meir