Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck, Ph.D. (2017), University of Amsterdam, is assistant professor at the University of Leiden. She specializes in late medieval and early modern religious history, and has published on pilgrimage and travel, historical cartography, graffiti, and sacri monti.

• AcknowledgementsNote on Transcriptions, Orthography, and DocumentationList of Figures1Franciscan Holy Land writing: Themes and Approaches1Social, Memorial, and Sacred Space2The “Holy” Land3Franciscan Holy Land Territoriality4Paul Walther von Guglingen and his Treatise5Synopsis2Situating the Sacred Centre in an Observant Franciscan Cosmos1Guglingen Sets the Scene2Jerusalem as the Sacred Middle Point of Bonaventure’s Metaphysical Circle3The Sacred Centre in later Franciscan Holy Land Writing4Marvels as Vestiges of the Sacred Centress5Conclusion3Holy Places, Sacred Travel1The Survival of Holy Land Pilgrimage2The Main Attraction or a Moot Point: Sacred Space3“Why do Protestants go on Holy Land pilgrimage?”: The Franciscan Perspective4Pilgrims between Curiosity and Devotion5Advising Pilgrims: Franciscan voyages to the Levant6Conclusion4St Francis and the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century1Guglingen’s history of Jerusalem2Franciscan Expectations for the Future of the Holy Land3Guglingen’s call for Crusade4Late Medieval Franciscan Crusade projects and their Patrons5St Francis in the Holy Land6Conclusion5St Francis’ Possessio of the Holy Land in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries1Competing with Jesuits, Capuchins, and Greeks in early Ottoman Jerusalem2Territorial Franciscan Holy Land writing in the Seventeenth Century3Francesco Quaresmio’s Simulacrum of the Holy Land4Francis’ pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land5Prophecy, Conformity, and Apocalypticism6Conclusion6EpilogueBibliographyIndex

Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck, Ph.D. (2017), University of Amsterdam, is assistant professor at the University of Leiden. She specializes in late medieval and early modern religious history, and has published on pilgrimage and travel, historical cartography, graffiti, and sacri monti.

• AcknowledgementsNote on Transcriptions, Orthography, and DocumentationList of Figures1Franciscan Holy Land writing: Themes and Approaches1Social, Memorial, and Sacred Space2The “Holy” Land3Franciscan Holy Land Territoriality4Paul Walther von Guglingen and his Treatise5Synopsis2Situating the Sacred Centre in an Observant Franciscan Cosmos1Guglingen Sets the Scene2Jerusalem as the Sacred Middle Point of Bonaventure’s Metaphysical Circle3The Sacred Centre in later Franciscan Holy Land Writing4Marvels as Vestiges of the Sacred Centress5Conclusion3Holy Places, Sacred Travel1The Survival of Holy Land Pilgrimage2The Main Attraction or a Moot Point: Sacred Space3“Why do Protestants go on Holy Land pilgrimage?”: The Franciscan Perspective4Pilgrims between Curiosity and Devotion5Advising Pilgrims: Franciscan voyages to the Levant6Conclusion4St Francis and the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century1Guglingen’s history of Jerusalem2Franciscan Expectations for the Future of the Holy Land3Guglingen’s call for Crusade4Late Medieval Franciscan Crusade projects and their Patrons5St Francis in the Holy Land6Conclusion5St Francis’ Possessio of the Holy Land in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries1Competing with Jesuits, Capuchins, and Greeks in early Ottoman Jerusalem2Territorial Franciscan Holy Land writing in the Seventeenth Century3Francesco Quaresmio’s Simulacrum of the Holy Land4Francis’ pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land5Prophecy, Conformity, and Apocalypticism6Conclusion6EpilogueBibliographyIndex

Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck, Ph.D. (2017), University of Amsterdam, is assistant professor at the University of Leiden. She specializes in late medieval and early modern religious history, and has published on pilgrimage and travel, historical cartography, graffiti, and sacri monti.

• AcknowledgementsNote on Transcriptions, Orthography, and DocumentationList of Figures1Franciscan Holy Land writing: Themes and Approaches1Social, Memorial, and Sacred Space2The “Holy” Land3Franciscan Holy Land Territoriality4Paul Walther von Guglingen and his Treatise5Synopsis2Situating the Sacred Centre in an Observant Franciscan Cosmos1Guglingen Sets the Scene2Jerusalem as the Sacred Middle Point of Bonaventure’s Metaphysical Circle3The Sacred Centre in later Franciscan Holy Land Writing4Marvels as Vestiges of the Sacred Centress5Conclusion3Holy Places, Sacred Travel1The Survival of Holy Land Pilgrimage2The Main Attraction or a Moot Point: Sacred Space3“Why do Protestants go on Holy Land pilgrimage?”: The Franciscan Perspective4Pilgrims between Curiosity and Devotion5Advising Pilgrims: Franciscan voyages to the Levant6Conclusion4St Francis and the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century1Guglingen’s history of Jerusalem2Franciscan Expectations for the Future of the Holy Land3Guglingen’s call for Crusade4Late Medieval Franciscan Crusade projects and their Patrons5St Francis in the Holy Land6Conclusion5St Francis’ Possessio of the Holy Land in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries1Competing with Jesuits, Capuchins, and Greeks in early Ottoman Jerusalem2Territorial Franciscan Holy Land writing in the Seventeenth Century3Francesco Quaresmio’s Simulacrum of the Holy Land4Francis’ pilgrimage-possessio of the Holy Land5Prophecy, Conformity, and Apocalypticism6Conclusion6EpilogueBibliographyIndex