Between the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
The treatise form stabilized in the last decades of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. In the treatises that originated at Mount Zion or were redacted by Friars who travelled to the Franciscan convent of Jerusalem, the Christocentri
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Writing the Holy Land The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300–1550 Michele Campopiano
The New Middle Ages Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English and Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX, USA
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14239
Michele Campopiano
Writing the Holy Land The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300–1550
Michele Campopiano Centre for Medieval Studies and Department of English and Related Literature University of York York, UK
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To my mother, Rita Del Prete To the memory of my father, Ettore Campopiano (1947–2020) Sol chi non lascia eredità d’affetti Poca gioia ha dell’urna
Preface
The volume you have in your hands is a study of the role of the Franciscans in Jerusalem in building a shared representation of the past of the Holy Land, a representation that is essential to understanding Latin Christianity’s self-definition.
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