Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500

Renana Bartal (PhD, Hebrew University, 2010) is Senior Lecturer at the department of Art History, Tel Aviv University. She has co-edited Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel (Leiden: Brill, 2015), and is the author of Gender, Piety and Production in Fourteenth Century Apocalypse Manuscripts (New York: Ashgate/Routledge, 2016).Neta B. Bodner (PhD, Hebrew University, 2016) is a Post-PhD fellow in the ERC-funded project ‘Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe’ at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bodner teaches in the Art History department of the Hebrew University and at the Open University in Raanana. She has published several articles about Pisan monuments, and architectural translations of Jerusalem to Vienna and northern Italy. Bianca Kühnel is Jack Cotton Professor Emerita of Fine Arts and Architecture at the Department of the History of Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her publications include From the Earthly to the Heavenly Jerusalem; Representations of the Holy City in Christian Art of the First Millennium (Rome-Freiburg/Br.-Vienna: Herder, 1987); The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Art, Special Issue of Jewish Art 23/24, 1997/1998; and Visual Constructs of Jerusalem, ed. with G. Noga-Banai and H. Vorholt (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014).

• Table of ContentsForewordCaroline Walker BynumNatural Materials, Place and RepresentationRenana Bartal, Neta Bodner and Bianca KühnelI Collecting and Collections1. Earth, Stone, Water and Oil: Objects of Veneration in Holy Land Travel Narratives Ora Limor2. Eleventh-Century Relic Collections and the Holy LandJulia M. H. Smith3. The Popes and the Loca Sancta of Jerusalem: Relic Practice and Relic Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Muslim Conquest Manfred Luchterhandt4. Jerusalem Refracted: Geographies of the True Cross in Late AntiquityLaura VeneskeyII Agents of Translation 5. Una processione da farsi ogni anno con una messa solenne: Reception of Stone Relics from the Holy Land in Renaissance RagusaTanja Trška6. The Stone of Grace in the Gareja Desert, GeorgiaZaza Skhirtladze7. Earth from Elsewhere: Burial in Terra Sancta beyond the Holy LandLucy Donkin8. Materiality and Liminality: Nonmimetic Evocations of Jerusalem along the Venetian Sea Routes to the Holy LandMichele BacciIII Instillation and Enactment9. Rocks of Jerusalem: Bringing the Holy Land HomeElina Gertsman and Asa Simon Mittman10. Image, Epigram, and Nature in Middle Byzantine Personal DevotionBrad Hostetler11. Place and Surface: Golgotha in Late Medieval Bruges Nadine Mai12. Moving Stones: On the Columns of the Dome of the Rock, Their History and MeaningLawrence Nees 13. Christ’s Unction and the Material Realization of a Stone in JerusalemYamit Rachman-SchrireIV Contemporary Re-enactment14. Susan Hiller’s Homages to Joseph Beuys: Mystics, Cult and Anthropology Kobi Ben-Meir