Writing the Holy Land The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300-1550 Buch von Michele Campopiano Blitzverkauf

The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the Convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, who welcomed and guided pilgrims. This book analyses this construction of a shared memory based on the continuous availability of these texts in the Franciscan library of Mount Zion, where they were copied and adapted to respond to new historical contexts. This book shows how the Franciscans developed a representation of the Holy Land by elaborating on its history and describing its religious groups and the geography of the region. This representation circulated among pilgrims and influenced how contemporaries imagined the Holy Land Über den Autor

Michele Campopiano is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of York, UK. He has participated in a number of international projects and held several grants, including a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.

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Winner of the 2021 San Francesco Prize

Engages with the growing field of memory studies and advances scholarship on pilgrimage and ‚crusade memory‘, two emerging areas of research

Presents a path-breaking case study on the creation process of cultural memory, based on extensive archival research on a number of unknown medieval manuscripts

Appeals to scholars and students of medieval history, book history, manuscript studies, history of the Middle East, cultural memory, medieval literature, religious studies, and theology