With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code to Christian cultures in Scandinavia. The first volume is dealing with the different notions of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages.

Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes
Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536)
Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750)
Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

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Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Editorial comments for all three volumes
Prelude
Introductions: Jerusalem in Medieval Scandinavia
Chapter 1 Jerusalem: Navel of the Storyworld in Medieval Scandinavia
Chapter 2 Re-Naming Jerusalem: A Note on Associative Etymology in the Vernacular North
Chapter 3 Translatio Templi: A Conceptual Condition for Jerusalem References in Medieval Scandinavia
Part I: Kings, Crusaders, and Jerusalem Relics: Strategies of Legitimation, Models of Authority
Chapter 4 Jerusalem and the Christianization of Norway
Chapter 5 Scandinavian Holy Kings in the Nativity Church of Bethlehem
Chapter 6 The Saint and the Wry-Neck: Norse Crusaders and the Second Crusade
Chapter 7 Historia de Profectione Danorum in Hierosolymam: A Journey to the Lost Jerusalem
Chapter 8 Importing Jerusalem: Relics of the True Cross as Political Legitimation in Early Twelfth-Century Denmark and Norway
Chapter 9 The Crown of Thorns and the Royal Office in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Scandinavia
Part II: The Holy City: Travels, Perceptions, and Interactions
Chapter 10 From Nidaros to Jerusalem; from Feginsbrekka to Mount Joy
Chapter 11 Scandinavian Pilgrims and the Churches of the Holy Land in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Chapter 12 Physical and Spiritual Travel across the Christian Storyworld: Leiðarvísir, an Old Norse Itinerary to Jerusalem
Chapter 13 The Locus of Truth: St Birgitta of Sweden and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Part III: Jerusalem Transposed and Reenacted: Townscapes, Churches, and Practices
Chapter 14 St Olav, Nidaros, and Jerusalem
Chapter 15 Jerusalem Commonplaces in Danish Rural Churches: What Urban Architecture Remembers
Chapter 16 The Holy City in the Wilderness: Interpreting the Round Churches in Västergötland, Sweden
Chapter 17 Entering the Temple of Jerusalem: Candlemas and Churching in the Lives of the Women of the North. A Study of Textual and Visual Sources
Chapter 18 Heavenly Agent and Divine Disclosure: The Holy Cross at Borre
Chapter 19 The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Church Interior
Part IV: Navigating the Sacred Storyworld: Nordic Landscapes and Salvation History
Chapter 20 Civitas Hierusalem famosisima: The Cross, the Orb, and the History of Salvation in the Medieval North
Chapter 21 Imagining the Holy Land in the Old Norse World
Chapter 22 Enemies of Christ in the Far North: Tales of Saracens, Jews and the Saami in Norwegian Medieval Painting
Chapter 23 The Virtues Building Jerusalem: The Four Daughters of God and Their Long Journey to Norwegian Law in the Thirteenth Century
Chapter 24 Zion in the North: Jerusalem and the Late Medieval Histories of Uppsala
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
Index

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