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Document Details : Title: Representations of Jerusalem on Medieval Maps and Miniatures Author(s): MEUWESE, Martine Journal: Eastern Christian Art Volume: 2 Date: 2005 Pages: 139-148 DOI: 10.2143/ECA.2.0.2004556 Abstract : Although Jerusalem was considered to be the centre of the world, it was so remote for most Christians in medieval Europe that the city was unimaginable except in terms of their own familiar realities. For spiritual reasons, too, representations of the city of Jerusalem in medieval Western manuscripts were more symbolic than realistic, as I hope to demonstrate in this article with some representative examples, ‘zooming in’ from the representation of Jerusalem on world maps, to regional maps of the Holy Land, city maps of Jerusalem, and representations of the city itself. |
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