IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 121: Memory, Identity, and Renewal in the Late Middle Ages: The Franciscans of Mount Zion in Jerusalem and the Representation of the Holy Land, 14th-16th Centuries
Monday 6 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NOW) |
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| Organiser: | Michele Campopiano, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York / Capaciteitsgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jan Vandeburie, Warburg Institute, University of London |
| Paper 121-a | Cultural Memory and Cultural Identities in the Late Middle Ages: Franciscan Descriptions of the Holy Land between Historiography, Ethnography, Geography, and Cosmography, c. 1300-1530 (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life, Science |
| Paper 121-b | Custodians of Sacred Space: Franciscan Views on the Sacred Geography of the Holy Land from c. 1480 Onwards (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Religious Life, Science, Theology |
| Paper 121-c | Interacting with the 'Other' in Ritual: Franciscans and 'Syrians'/'Jacobites' at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Liturgy, Religious Life, Theology |
| Abstract | Between 14th and 16th centuries the representation of the Holy Land in Western Europe was largely shaped by the Franciscans of the Convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem. This session will investigate how they reformed and renewed the cultural memory of the holy places and the representation of Holy Land in the Medieval West. It will address the construction of sacred geographies by the Franciscans, their reproduction through topographical treatises and spatially-realised sacred geographies like the Italian sacri monti, their interaction with other religious communities through rituals performed in the holy places, and their descriptions of these very communities. |