The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land

Kathryn Blair Moore teaches medieval and Renaissance art history at Texas State University, San Marcos. She received her art historical training at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Academy in Rome, and the University of Hong Kong (where she previously taught) have supported extensive research throughout Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa. Her scholarly work explores the intersection of architectural, pictorial, and textual cultures, with a particular emphasis upon larger religious and political contexts, from pilgrimage to religious wars, that shaped the experience of buildings across Europe and the Mediterranean world.

Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.

Preface; Abbreviations; List of illustrations; Introduction; Part I. The Symbolization of Holy Land Architecture: 1. Fragmentary inscriptions and material presence; 2. Rome and Constantinople; 3. Architectural inscriptions in Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis; 4. Recreations of the Holy Sepulcher and Benedictine monasticism; Part II. Triumphal Restoration and Recreation in the Crusades: 5. The Crusader conquest and triumphal recreation; 6. The restoration of the Temple of Solomon; 7. Recreating the city of Jerusalem; 8. True portraits/true Jerusalems; Part III. The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land: 9. Formation of the Franciscan Custody; 10. Assisi as a New Jerusalem; 11. Franciscan books on the Holy Land pilgrimage; 12. Signs of Christianity and Islam; Part IV. Imagined Pilgrimages and Crusades in the Renaissance: 13. The ephemeral architecture of Philip the Good's crusading ambitions; 14. The conspicuous nobility of dedication to Holy Land architecture; 15. The Franciscan Order, papacy, and symbolic possession of the Holy Land; 16. Protestant Reformation, Ottoman conquest, and Catholic renewal after 1517; Epilogue; Bibliography; Notes.