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

Table of Contents

Foreword
Caroline Walker Bynum

Natural Materials, Place and Representation
Renana Bartal, Neta Bodner and Bianca Kuehnel

I Collecting and Collections

1. Earth, Stone, Water and Oil: Objects of Veneration in Holy Land Travel Narratives
Ora Limor

2. Eleventh-Century Relic Collections and the Holy Land
Julia M. H. Smith

3. The Popes and the Loca Sancta of Jerusalem: Relic Practice and Relic Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Muslim Conquest
Manfred Luchterhandt

4. Jerusalem Refracted: Geographies of the True Cross in Late Antiquity
Laura Veneskey

II Agents of Translation

5. Una processione da farsi ogni anno con una messa solenne: Reception of Stone Relics from the Holy Land in Renaissance Ragusa
Tanja Trska

6. The Stone of Grace in the Gareja Desert, Georgia
Zaza Skhirtladze

7. Earth from Elsewhere: Burial in Terra Sancta beyond the Holy Land
Lucy Donkin

8. Materiality and Liminality: Nonmimetic Evocations of Jerusalem along the Venetian Sea Routes to the Holy Land
Michele Bacci

III Instillation and Enactment

9. Rocks of Jerusalem: Bringing the Holy Land Home
Elina Gertsman and Asa Simon Mittman

10. Image, Epigram, and Nature in Middle Byzantine Personal Devotion
Brad Hostetler

11. Place and Surface: Golgotha in Late Medieval Bruges
Nadine Mai

12. Moving Stones: On the Columns of the Dome of the Rock, Their History and Meaning
Lawrence Nees

13. Christ's Unction and the Material Realization of a Stone in Jerusalem
Yamit Rachman-Schrire

IV Contemporary Re-enactment

14. Susan Hiller's Homages to Joseph Beuys: Mystics, Cult and Anthropology
Kobi Ben-Meir