Tomb and Temple: Reimagining the Sacred Buildings of Jerusalem
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 103290328
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- The Boydell Press
- ISBN
- 9781783272808
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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0
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- The Round Church in the Temple is modelled on the Holy Sepulchre and Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Contributors were asked to address the question: who noticed or cared about such dependences in churches and church-complexes?; and indeed who noticed who noticed or cared who cared? That is: to re-examine the bases on which the study of such churches has flourished since Krautheimer’s fundamental paper of 1942. The book brings together The Courtauld’s expertise in art-history and KCL’s in theology, in a rare and fruitful combination of architectural, political, theological and liturgical history.
The book’s five sections address: large- and small-scale re-presentations of the Sepulchre; the Holy Sepulchre itself; the Noble Sanctuary / Temple Mount; the Orthodox Churches; and Round Churches in the West. The volume covers an exceptional breadth of themes and locales (Aachen, Britain, the Caucasus, Compostela, Constantinople, Ethiopia, Germigny, Italy, Jerusalem, Russia) before focussing at last on the Temple Church itself. The contributors all approach the central question through their own view of their own specialism. Combined in a single, articulated volume, each contribution casts light on all the others; the volume’s total is far more than the sum of its – very significant – parts.
Griffith-Jones wrote:
The Introduction, ‘Public, Private and Political Devotion: Re-Presenting the Sepulchre’, 17-47;
‘The Building of the Holy Sepulche’, 53-75;
‘”I have defeated you, Solomon”’, 187-93 (on Hagia Sophia);
‘Arculf’s Circles, Aachen’s Octagon, Germigny’s Cube: Three Riddles from Northern Europe’, 301-28; and
‘The Temple Church in the Crusades’, 429-56, with the publication of a newly discovered set of drawings of the Temple Church’s medieval effigies (in the Folger Library, Washington DC), 456-70.
As the first editor, Griffith-Jones also managed the plan, assembly, design and illustrations of the volume as a whole, and wrote the section-introductions and the Epilogue, 479-484.
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