This book offers a way of reading maps of the Holy Land as visual imagery with religious connotations. Through a corpus of representative examples created between the sixth and the nineteenth centuries, it studies the maps as iconic imagery of an iconic landscape and analyses their strategies to manifest the spiritual quality of the biblical topography, to support religious tenets, and to construct and preserve cultural memory. It reveals that maps of the Holy Land constructed religious messages and were significant instruments through which different Christian cultures (Byzantine, Catholic, Protestant, and Greek Orthodox) shaped their religious identities. It ascertains how these maps formulated religious and cultural values.
| ISBN: | 9782503585260 |
| Publication date: | 16th July 2020 |
| Author: | Pnina Arad |
| Publisher: | Brepols an imprint of Brepols Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages |
| Genres: |
Spirituality and religious experience |