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
I will sing you hymns of love while I am groaning with groans too deep for words [Rom. 8.26] during my pilgrimage, and remembering Jerusalem, towards which my heart is raised high, Jerusalem, my country, Jerusalem, my mother [Gal. 4.26]. And I shall remember you, her Ruler, her Father, her Guardian and her Spouse … I shall not turn aside until I come to that abode of peace, Jerusalem my mother.
– Augustine, Confessions 12.16.23The keeper let me enter the tomb alone. … Bowing down before the holy tomb and kissing with love and tears the holy place where the most pure body of our Lord Jesus Christ lay, I measured the tomb in length and breadth and height, for when people are present it is quite impossible to measure it. … I gave the keeper of the key a small present and my poor blessing. And he, seeing my love for the Lord’s tomb, pushed back for me the slab which is at the head of the holy tomb of the Lord and broke off a small piece of the blessed rock as a relic and forbade me under oath to say anything of this in Jerusalem.
– Daniel the Abbot, in Jerusalem at Easter, c. 1106Jerusalem has informed the Christian imagination from the time of Jesus himself: as the setting of events within human history which transcended and redirected all history; as the ‘New Jerusalem’, the final and longed-for home of the faithful, currently hidden in heaven and due at the last times to be realised on earth; as the representation in buildings of the living, human stones built by God into the present Church, herself already informed and animated by the spirit, the down-payment and seal of the New Creation; and therefore as the centre, symbol and goal of God’s action in the individual soul and throughout creation. Our first series of colour plates (I–X) introduces the two buildings in Jerusalem to which we will revert throughout the following pages: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; and the Dome of the Rock.
Much of this book is focused on architectural representations of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the supposed site of Jesus’ tomb.
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- Tomb and TempleRe-imagining the Sacred Buildings of Jerusalem, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018