Jerusalem

„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ - Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts

Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa

The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus...

Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem

Jüdisches Leben in Franken

"Next year in Jerusalem" is a wish, a vision of many Jews who live abroad, in the diaspora. Jews have been living in Franconia for 1000 years - tolerated, expelled, murdered - and...

Das unverrückbar Heilige – Jerusalems Loca Sancta in der Kreuzfahrerzeit

Jerusalem's immovable loca sancta - the places sanctified by Christ's presence - were last fundamentally remodelled in the Crusader period, adapting them to the demands of the new...

Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art

Three Case Studies: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Etel Adnan

Interrelations of literature and art, word and image, are manifold. However, they have remained largely unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world. This book...

KartenWissen

Territoriale Räume zwischen Bild und Diagramm

This collection of essays covers all periods of cartography’s history from antiquity to the present time, all kinds of maps from star maps and sea charts to land maps and street...

Die Messingstadt

Eine Erzählung aus „Tausendundeiner Nacht“. Architektur einer Heiligwerdung

Anyone associating The Arabian Nights with erotic stories will doubtlessly be disappointed when reading “City of Brass” (Nights 566−578). This tale deals not with the lust for...

Palestinian Theatre

The book outlines the development of Palestinian theatre from the first theatrical attempts before 1948, to the heavy blow, which these attempts suffered as a result of the Nakba,...

Byzanz, der Westen und das »wahre« Kreuz

Die Geschichte einer Reliquie und ihrer künstlerischen Fassung in Byzanz und im Abendland

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Seit der legendären, früh mit Kaiserin Helena in Verbindung gebrachten Auffindung des Passionskreuzes Christi in...

Governing the Holy City

The Interaction of Social Groups in Jerusalem between the Fatimid and the Ottoman Period

The history of Jerusalem during the Islamic Middle Ages was not confined to the foundation of sanctuaries, and the struggle over their control – even if these aspects could not be...

Reisen nach Jerusalem – Das Heilige Land in Karten und Ansichten aus fünf Jahrhunderten

Bestandskatalog der Sammlung Loewenhardt

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Jerusalem und das Heilige Land sind seit der babylonischen Gefangenschaft, der ersten Diaspora der Juden, der...