Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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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
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Reviews
“This is a fine book by a fine scholar, one that centers the intellectual engagement of the Franciscan community at Mount Sion in the emergence of a distinctly Catholic understanding of the Holy Land.” (Megan C. Armstrong, Speculum, Vol. 99 (4), October, 2024)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing the Holy Land
Book Subtitle: The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300–1550
Authors: Michele Campopiano
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52774-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52773-0Published: 17 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52776-1Published: 18 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52774-7Published: 16 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 438
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature, History of the Middle East, History of the Book