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Ayyubid Jerusalem (1187-1250)
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Introduction
Introduction
For the stone shall cry out of the wall and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.—Habakkuk 2:11.AMONG THE PAGAN CITIES THAT WENT THROUGH “CONVERSION” TO Christianity in the f...
Jonatan Meir, Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948), trans. Avi Aronsky. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 269 pp.
Jonatan Meir, Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948), trans. Avi Aronsky. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 269 pp.
This chapter reviews the book Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948) (2016), by Jonatan Meir, translated by Avi Aronsky. In Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem, Meir focuses on ...
Estate Management around Florence and Lucca 1000-1250
Estate Management around Florence and Lucca 1000-1250
Abstract
This book describes the forms of estate management, and the way they changed, around Florence and Lucca during the central Middle Ages. It is based mainly o...
Rome’s Loca Sancta
Rome’s Loca Sancta
This chapter focuses on the creation of holy sites in Rome that are comparable in their significance to those in Jerusalem—that is, touched by past sacred events and/or sacred bodi...
Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor
Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor
David Basham argues that Paul and the Corinthians share a “system of associated commonplaces” about the Jerusalem temple. He proposes that when Paul applies temple language to the...
The Great Reform Empires (1100–1250 CE)
The Great Reform Empires (1100–1250 CE)
This chapter describes how Islamic architecture developed more sober and abstract tendencies during the religious reforms of 1100-1250 CE as two successive Berber dynasties, first ...