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In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian
times to the present, articulate a variety of cultural, religious
and political implications of the visualization of Jerusalem. This
collection of essays calls attention to two axes emerging from the
study of Jerusalem in art: on the one hand, the volatile
contemporary situation, and on the other hand, the abiding chain of
meanings that history imparts to the city. From a contemporary
perspective and within a broad historical context, the book
discusses in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and
buildings providing new insights into memory processes and
mechanisms of representation of Jerusalem.
Publicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of
medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not
only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically
and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the
Mediterranean basin. The continuity of Roman traditions and
cross-fertilization between various influences originating from
Constantinople, Armenia, the Arab-Muslim World, and western
kingdoms and naval powers provide the framework for a distinct
sphere of ritual expression and ceremonial performance. This
collective volume, placing Byzantium into a comparative perspective
between East and West, examines transformative processes from Late
Antiquity to the Middle Ages, succession procedures in different
political contexts, phenomena of cross-cultural appropriation and
exchange, and the representation of rituals in art and literature.
Contributors are Maria Kantirea, Martin Hinterberger, Walter Pohl,
Andrew Marsham, Bjoern Weiler, Eric J. Hanne, Antonia Giannouli, Jo
Van Steenbergen, Stefan Burkhardt, Ioanna Rapti, Jonathan Shepard,
Panagiotis Agapitos, Henry Maguire, Christine Angelidi and Margaret
Mullett.
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