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Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099-1187) (Church, Faith, and Culture in the Medieval West) [Hardcover]

Sylvia Schein (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd (June 30, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 075460649X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0754606499
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Spiritual Politics of God's Kingdom, April 29, 2008
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The late Ms Schein's book, though repetitive more often than it should be, is an admirable synopsis of the fluctuating imagery of Jerusalem in the Latin West's collective zeitgeist. From being an irrelevant distraction to the true Heavenly Jerusalem to come prior to the Crusader triumph of 1099 to a glorified repository of Christ's footsteps and life afterwards, the author describes how political forces shaped the perception of the city. Interestingly, monks showed hostility to the idea of the tonsured finding redemption in Jerusalem, while looking askance or with indifference to the layman's quest for absolution in their pilgrimage to the Holy Land. After Saladin's re-conquest in 1187, an event that traumatized the West, the earthly city gradually receded in escatological and soteriological importance, with its heavenly successor once again assuming the dominant role in European salvation culture. The story of the Crusader focus on the Temple Mount and the redemption of the Jews upon Christ's Second Coming makes interesting reading in light of the Christian fundamentalist movement in Israel today. This is a must read for anyone interested in medieval theology, the Crusading movement or the Holy Land.
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qui ameis, peregrinatione acceleranda, holy geography, crusader art, vraie amour, crusade propaganda, crusader conquest, visio pacis, venerunt gentes, topographical identification, novae militiae, principis instructione, première croisade, crusader rule, locis sanctis, crusading kingdom, studi sulla spiritualità medievale, crusader period, loca sancta, celestial counterpart, first crusaders, crusader kingdom, des croisades, earthly city, biblical past
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Holy Sepulchre, First Crusade, Third Crusade, Temple of the Lord, Bernard of Clairvaux, Holy Cross, Middle Ages, Roger of Hoveden, Temple Mount, Second Crusade, Baldricus Dolensis, Crusader Jerusalem, Last Days, Old Testament, True Cross, Bernardus Claraevallensis, Henry of Albano, Carmina Burana, Last Emperor, Mount Moriah, Mount Zion, Peter the Venerable, Pope Urban, New Testament, Temple of Solomon
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