
Tracing the Jerusalem Code: Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (Ca. 1100-1536)
Synopsis
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image - or rather the imagination - of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code to Christian cultures in Scandinavia. The first volume is dealing with the different notions of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages.
Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes
Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100-1536)
Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536-ca. 1750)
Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750-ca. 1920)
Publisher information
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- ISBN: 9783110634853
- Number of pages: 637
- Dimensions: 240 x 170 x 35 mm
- Weight: 1637g
- Languages: English