Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-31471-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

In Chosen Places. Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa, Jelena Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament topic of the divinely-chosen status of Jerusalem and translatio Hierosolymi, including the history, process and media of formulating and disseminating this idea and its spatial-visual matrix in Christian visual culture. Firstly the study presents the case of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, as New Jerusalem, and secondly, in relation to Constatinople, discussion focuses on the cases of the capitals of Slavia Orthodoxa in the later Middle Ages: Turnovo, Belgrade and Moscow. The idea of Jerusalem corresponds with the idea of a mystical center, the center of the historical Christian world, which travels and follows the path of eschatologial realisation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erdeljan, Jelena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author’s Note
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 State of Research

2 Jerusalem—City and Idea
Old Testament Times
New Testament Times

3 Constantinople—Paradigm of a Christian Capital as New Jerusalem
Translatio Hierosolymi

4 Principles of Construction and Visual Representation of the Jerusalem Identity of Constantinople

5 History and Instruments of Constantinople’s Jerusalemization
The Age of Constantine the Great
The Age of Theodosius
The Age of Justinian
The Age of Heraclius
The Age of the Macedonians
The Age of the Komnenoi
The Age of the Palaiologoi

6 Capitals of Slavia Orthodoxa in the Late Middle Ages: New Jerusalems as New Constantinoples?
Translatio Constantinopoleos
Trnovo
Belgrade
Moscow

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Jelena Erdeljan, Ph.D. (2008), University of Belgrade, is Professor of Art History at that University. She has published monographs, articles and edited volumes on aspects of visual culture of medieval and early modern Balkans.