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The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth
to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural
memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy
Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the
Convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, who welcomed and guided
pilgrims. This book analyses this construction of a shared memory
based on the continuous availability of these texts in the
Franciscan library of Mount Zion, where they were copied and
adapted to respond to new historical contexts. This book shows how
the Franciscans developed a representation of the Holy Land by
elaborating on its history and describing its religious groups and
the geography of the region. This representation circulated among
pilgrims and influenced how contemporaries imagined the Holy Land
The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth
to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural
memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy
Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the
Convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, who welcomed and guided
pilgrims. This book analyses this construction of a shared memory
based on the continuous availability of these texts in the
Franciscan library of Mount Zion, where they were copied and
adapted to respond to new historical contexts. This book shows how
the Franciscans developed a representation of the Holy Land by
elaborating on its history and describing its religious groups and
the geography of the region. This representation circulated among
pilgrims and influenced how contemporaries imagined the Holy Land
Essays demonstrating the importance and inflence of Italian culture
on medieval Britain. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth
centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and
cities, and the politics of diplomacy all helped to foster
productive and far-reaching connections and cultural
interactionsbetween Britain and Italy; equally, the flourishing of
Italian humanism from the late fourteenth century onwards had a
major impact on intellectual life in Britain. The aim of this book
is to illustrate the continuity andthe variety of these exchanges
during the period. Each chapter focuses on a specific area (book
collection, historiography, banking, commerce, literary
production), highlighting the significance of the productive
interchange ofpeople and ideas across diverse cultural communities;
it is the lived experience of individuals, substantiated by written
evidence, that shapes the book's collective understanding of how
two European cultures interacted with eachother so fruitfully.
MICHELE CAMPOPIANO is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin Literature
at the University of York; HELEN FULTON is Professor of Medieval
Literature at the University of Bristol. Contributors: Helen
Bradley, Margaret Bridges, Michele Campopiano, Carolyn Collette,
Victoria Flood, Helen Fulton, Bart Lambert, Ignazio del Punta
New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval
genre of the universal chronicle. Found in pre-modern cultures of
every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to
medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is
simultaneously one of the most ubiquitous pre-modern cultural forms
and one of the most overlooked. Universal chronicles narrate the
history of the whole world from the time of its creation up to the
then present day, treating the world's affairs as though they were
part of a single organic reality, and uniting various strands of
history into a unifed, coherent story. They reveal a great deal
about how the societies that produced them understood their world
and how historical narrative itself can work to produce that
understanding. The essays here offer new perspectives on the genre,
from a number of different disciplines, demonstrating their
vitality, flexibility and cultural importance, They reveal them to
be deeply political texts, which allowed history-writers and their
audiences to locate themselves in space, time and in the created
universe. Several chapters address the manuscript context, looking
at the innovative techniques of compilation, structure and layout
that placed them at the cutting edge of medieval book technology.
Others analyse the background of universal chronicles, and identify
their circulation amongst different social groups; there are also
investigations into their literary discourse, patronage, authorship
and diffusion. Michele Campopiano is Senior Lecturer in Medieval
Latin Literature at the University of York; Henry Bainton is
Lecturer in High Medieval Literature at the University of York.
Contributors:Tobias Andersson, Michele Campopiano, Cornelia Dreer,
Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Elena Koroleva, Keith Lilley, Andrew
Marsham, Rosa M. Rodriguez Porto, Christophe Thierry, Elizabeth M.
Tyler, Steven Vanderputten, Bjorn Weiler, Claudia Wittig.
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