Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction
- Part I Re-presenting Jerusalem
- Part II The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Part III The Noble Sanctuary / The Temple Mount
- Part IV The Orthodox Churches
- Part V Round Churches in the West
- Appendix: The Knights’ Effigies: Newly Discovered Drawings by John Guillim, c. 1610
- Epilogue
- Index
- Already Published
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction
- Part I Re-presenting Jerusalem
- Part II The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Part III The Noble Sanctuary / The Temple Mount
- Part IV The Orthodox Churches
- Part V Round Churches in the West
- Appendix: The Knights’ Effigies: Newly Discovered Drawings by John Guillim, c. 1610
- Epilogue
- Index
- Already Published
Summary
When they had arrived at the place which is called the Hill of Mercy, from which the city of God, the holy Jerusalem, can be seen, they all raised their arms towards heaven and offered up thanks to God. But when St David Garejeli saw Jerusalem he fell upon the ground and said to them, ‘No, brethren, I may venture to advance no further from this spot, for I judge myself unworthy even to approach those holy places. But you go and pray for me, a sinner.’ After he had spent much time there in praying and lamenting, bowed down towards the earth, he picked up three stones and packed them in his scrip as sacred relics, as if they had been hewn from the very sepulchre of Christ. After this he turned round and walked joyfully along the road which leads to Gareja.
– The Life and Acts of our Holy Father David of Gareja.Any Ethiopian who, having heard about those so remarkable churches [of Roha/Lālibalā], does not go the holy city of Roha, is like a man who would not have any desire to behold the face of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
– The Life of Lālibalā (Gadla Lālibalā), 127.‘I have defeated you, Solomon.’ Robin Griffith-Jones summarises the context and arguments, well known to scholars, which clarify Justinian’s boast over H. Sophia; and then asks if the kontakion of 562 in praise of the church was drawing a distinction between the Tabernacle and the Temple that has not generally been seen. Cecily Hennessy, Antony Eastmond and Robin Milner-Gulland now take us to Orthodoxy north of the Holy Land; David Phillipson and Emmanuel Fritsch southwards to the Ethiopian Church and Roha/Lālibalā.
Cecily Hennessy explores the sacred topography associated with St James, the Lord’s brother, in Jerusalem and Constantinople. The relics of St James, with those of Simeon and Zacharias, were taken to Constantinople in the sixth century, where the Chalkoprateia church, which housed the Virgin’s girdle, was rebuilt by Justin II (565–78) to include a chapel to James. The lower level of this chapel, with a painting of the murder of Zacharias, was rediscovered in 1953.
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- Tomb and TempleRe-imagining the Sacred Buildings of Jerusalem, pp. 183 - 186Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018