USD $172.00
Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa
Series:
Author:
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.
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.
''Lo studio della Erdeljan rappresenta pertanto sia un’utile discussione su una cospicua parte di bibliografia inerente al mito di Gerusalemme in Europa; sia una valida ricerca autonoma sulla reviviscenza di questo mito nella
Slavia orthodoxa ". Tommaso Migliorini in
Medioevo Greco , 19 (2019).
"The book serves as an introduction to the topic and its ramifications for a broader audience, but it speaks more directly to the specialists versed in the textual and especially the visual sources analysed. [...] This study is an important scholarly contribution that opens up the possibility of future explorations: on the one hand, of the particulars of how the spatial, material, ideological, and textual constructs of these capital cities of the Eastern Christian world relate to artistic representations of their respective topographies and their symbolic meanings and functions; on the other hand, of the later transformations of these centers, and others, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453''. Alice Isabella Sullivan, in Speculum 95 (2), April 2020.
"The book offers a bold conceptual framework for a bright range of phenomena, and therefore will surely serve as a starting point for meaningful discussions". Mikhail A. Boytsov in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 70(1-2), December 2022.
"The book serves as an introduction to the topic and its ramifications for a broader audience, but it speaks more directly to the specialists versed in the textual and especially the visual sources analysed. [...] This study is an important scholarly contribution that opens up the possibility of future explorations: on the one hand, of the particulars of how the spatial, material, ideological, and textual constructs of these capital cities of the Eastern Christian world relate to artistic representations of their respective topographies and their symbolic meanings and functions; on the other hand, of the later transformations of these centers, and others, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453''. Alice Isabella Sullivan, in Speculum 95 (2), April 2020.
"The book offers a bold conceptual framework for a bright range of phenomena, and therefore will surely serve as a starting point for meaningful discussions". Mikhail A. Boytsov in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 70(1-2), December 2022.
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
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
All interested in biblical topics, the transfer and reception of cultural models, Byzantine concepts and visual culture and their reception in
Slavia Orthodoxa.