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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 Public, private and political devotion : re-presenting the Sepulchre / Robin Griffith-Jones -- The building of the Holy Sepulchre / Robin Griffith-Jones -- The crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre / Denys Pringle -- The crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre : design, depiction and the pilgrim church of Compostela / Jaroslav Folda -- Medieval Muslim veneration of the Dome of the Rock / Robert Hillenbrand -- The Temple as symbol, the Temple as metaphor : contrasting Eastern and Western reimaginings / Robert Ousterhout -- Spiral columns and the Temple of Solomon / Eric Fernie -- Raphael's 'Marriage of the Virgin' and the Temple at Jerusalem in the Italian Renaissance imagination / David Ekserdjian -- 'I have defeated you, Solomon' / Robin Griffith-Jones -- Saint James the Just : sacral topography in Jerusalem and Constantinople / Cecily Hennessy -- Jerusalems in the Caucasus? / Antony Eastmond -- Holy Russia and the 'Jerusalem idea' / Robin Milner-Gulland -- Jerusalem and the Ethiopian church : the evidence of Roha (Lalibela) / David W. Phillipson -- The origins and meanings of the Ethiopian circular church : fresh explorations / Emmanuel Fritsch -- Arculf's circles, Aachen's octagon, Germigny's cube : three riddles from northern Europe / Robin Griffith-Jones -- Representations of the Holy Sepulchre / Eric Fernie -- The military orders and the idea of the Holy Sepulchre / Alan Borg -- The English round church movement table and notes : English round churches / Catherine E. Hundley -- The use and meaning of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century round churches of England / Michael Gervers -- Jerusalem in London : the new Temple Church. Appendix : the indulgences of Cotton Nero E.VI / Nicole Hamonic -- Commemorating the rotunda in the round : the medieval Latin liturgy of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and its performance in the West / Sebastian Salvadó -- The Temple Church in the crusades / Robin Griffith-Jones -- Appendix : the knights' effigies : newly discovered drawings by John Guillim, c. 1610 / Robin Griffith-Jones and Philip J. Lankester -- Epilogue / Robin Griffith-Jones
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