Jerusalem - earthly and heavenly, past, present and future - has always informed the Christian imagination: it is the intersection of the divine and human worlds, of time and eternity. Since the fourth century, it has been the site of the round Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the empty tomb acknowledged by Constantine as the tomb of Christ. Nearly four hundred years later, the Sepulchre's rotunda was rivalled by the octagon of the Dome of the Rock. The city itself and these two glorious buildings within it remain, to this day, the focus of pilgrimage and of intense devotion. Jerusalem and its numinous buildings have been distinctively re-imagined and re-presented in the design, topography, decoration and dedications of some very striking and beautiful churches and cities in Western Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Ethiopia. Some are famous, others are in the West almost unknown. The essays in this richly illustrated book combine to do justice to these evocative buildings' architecture, roles and history. The volume begins with an introduction to the Sepulchre itself, from its construction under Constantine to the Crusaders' rebuilding which survives to this day. Chapters follow on the Dome of the Rock and on the later depiction and signifcance of the Jewish Temple. The essays then move further afeld, uncovering the links between Jerusalem and Byzantium, the Caucasus, Russia and Ethiopia. Northern Europe comes fnally into focus, with chapters on Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, the role of the military orders in spreading the form of the Sepulchre, a gazetteer of English rounds, and studies of London's New Temple.
Author(s): Robin Griffith-Jones, Eric Fernie (eds.)
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, 13
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 558
City: Woodbridge
Illustrations xi
Preface xxv
Contributors xxvi
Abbreviations xxvii
Editors’ Note xxx
Introduction 1
Part I: Re-presenting Jerusalem
1. Public, Private and Political Devotion: Re-presenting the Sepulchre / Robin Griffith-Jones 17
Part II: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Introduction 51
2. The Building of the Holy Sepulchre / Robin Griffith-Jones 53
3. The Crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre / Denys Pringle 76
4. The Crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Design, Depiction and the Pilgrim Church of Compostela / Jaroslav Folda 95
Part III: The Noble Sanctuary / The Temple Mount
Introduction 123
5. Medieval Muslim Veneration of the Dome of the Rock / Robert Hillenbrand 125
6. The Temple as Symbol, the Temple as Metaphor: Contrasting Eastern and Western Reimaginings / Robert Ousterhout 146
7. Spiral Columns and the Temple of Solomon / Eric Fernie 159
8. Raphael’s ‘Marriage of the Virgin’ and the Temple at Jerusalem in the Italian Renaissance Imagination / David Ekserdjian 164
Part IV: The Orthodox Churches
Introduction 183
9. ‘I have defeated you, Solomon’ / Robin Griffith-Jones 187
10. Saint James the Just: Sacral Topography in Jerusalem and Constantinople / Cecily Hennessy 194
11. Jerusalems in the Caucasus? / Antony Eastmond 211
12. Holy Russia and the ‘Jerusalem Idea’ / Robin Milner-Gulland 233
13. Jerusalem and the Ethiopian Church: The Evidence of Roha (Lalibela) / David W. Phillipson 255
14. The Origins and Meanings of the Ethiopian Circular Church: Fresh Explorations / Emmanuel Fritsch 267
Part V: Round Churches in the West
Introduction 297
15. Arculf ’s Circles, Aachen’s Octagon, Germigny’s Cube: Three Riddles from Northern Europe / Robin Griffith-Jones 301
16. Representations of the Holy Sepulchre / Eric Fernie 329
17. The Military Orders and the Idea of the Holy Sepulchre / Alan Borg 339
18. The English Round Church Movement. Table and Notes: English Round Churches / Catherine E. Hundley 352
19. The Use and Meaning of the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Round Churches of England / Michael Gervers 376
20. Jerusalem in London: The New Temple Church. Appendix: The Indulgences of Cotton Nero E.VI / Nicole Hamonic 387
21. Commemorating the Rotunda in the Round: The Medieval Latin Liturgy of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and its Performance in the West / Sebastian Salvadó 413
22. The Temple Church in the Crusades / Robin Griffith-Jones 429
Appendix: The Knights’ Effigies: Newly Discovered Drawings by John Guillim, c. 1610 / Robin Griffith-Jones and Philip J. Lankester 457
Epilogue / Robin Griffith-Jones 479
Index
