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Celestine III
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Crusader Conquest
Crusader Jerusalem
crusader state governance
De Principis Instructione
Deus Venerunt Gentes
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Earthly Jerusalem
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Heavenly Jerusalem
Historia Peregrinorum
holy
Holy City
Holy Mountain
Holy Sepulchre
Innocent III
Itinerarium Peregrinorum
jerusalem
Latin Christendom perspectives
Lord's Sepulchre
lords
Lord’s Sepulchre
medieval religious history
Otto III
papal authority studies
Petrus Blesensis
Pope Gregory VIII
Pope Urban II's Preaching
Pope Urban II’s Preaching
Rorgo Fretellus
sanctity of holy places
sepulchre
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Urban II's Speech
Urban II’s Speech
Western attitudes toward sacred Jerusalem
Product details
- ISBN 9780754606499
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Gateway to the Heavenly City presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187. Sylvia Schein starts by exploring the changes in the Western image of Jerusalem, first as the goal of the crusade, then after its conquest. She examines the theories used to justify the conquest and rule of the Holy City and the attitudes of the papacy towards this new rival centre of sanctity. Subsequent chapters describe the new character of Jerusalem's sanctity as the city of the Old and New Testaments, as the earthly gateway to the heavenly city, and in apocalyptic terms as the centre of the world and the place where the events of the end of the world would unroll. The reaction to the fall of crusader Jerusalem in 1187 is the subject of the final chapter. Based on a detailed examination of the source materials, from poetry and song to chronicles and charters, this book paints a clear picture of the place of the Earthly and the Heavenly Jerusalem in Latin Christendom.
Sylvia Schein was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of General History, at the University of Haifa, Israel.
