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Author Bartal, Renana

Title Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (301 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of color plates; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Natural materials, place, and representation; I Collecting and collections; 1 Earth, stone, water, and oil: objects of veneration in Holy Land travel narratives; 2 Eleventh-century relic collections and the Holy Land; 3 The popes and the loca sancta of Jerusalem: relic practice and relic diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Muslim conquest; 4 Jerusalem refracted: geographies of the True Cross in late antiquity; II Agents of translation
5 Una processione da farsi ogni anno con una Messa Solenne: reception of stone relics from the Holy Land in Renaissance Ragusa6 The Stone of Grace in the Gareja Desert, Georgia; 7 Earth from elsewhere: burial in terra sancta beyond the Holy Land; 8 Materiality and liminality: nonmimetic evocations of Jerusalem along the Venetian sea routes to the Holy Land; III Instillation and enactment; 9 Rocks of Jerusalem: bringing the Holy Land home; 10 Image, epigram, and nature in Middle Byzantine personal devotion; 11 Place and surface: Golgotha in late medieval Bruges
12 Moving stones: on the columns of the Dome of the Rock, their history and meaning13 Christ's unction and the material realization of a stone in Jerusalem; IV Contemporary re-enactment; 14 Susan Hiller's Homages to Joseph Beuys: mystics, cult, and anthropology; Index
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Subject Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Palestine -- History -- To 1500
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Palestine
Natural history -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Natural history -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Travel
SUBJECT Palestine -- Description and travel
Subject Middle East -- Palestine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bodner, Neta
Kuhnel, Bianca
ISBN 9781351809276
135180927X