UID:
almahu_9949070164102882
Format:
1 online resource (XX, 506 p.)
ISBN:
3-11-063654-9
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3-11-063945-9
Content:
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, in this volume focussing on Jerusalem's impact on Protestantism and Christianity in Early Modern Scandinavia. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumesVolume 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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Maps and Illustrations --
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List of Abbreviations --
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Editorial comments for all three volumes --
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Prelude --
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Introductions: Jerusalem in Early Modern Protestantism --
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Chapter 1 The Reformation of the Jerusalem Code in the Sixteenth Century --
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Chapter 2 The Transformation of the Concept "People of God" in the Reformation Era --
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Chapter 3 The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern Europe --
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Chapter 4 The Election of Israel? Jews in the Eyes of Early Modern Lutherans --
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Part I: The Nordic Zion and Its Leaders: Strategies of Legitimation --
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Chapter 5 The Nordic Zion: The Coronation of Christian III, King of Denmark-Norway, in 1537 --
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Chapter 6 Topos and Topography: Jerusalem in the Memory of Christian III, King of Denmark-Norway --
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Chapter 7 A Zion in the North: The Jerusalem Code and the Rhetoric of Nationhood in Early Modern Sweden --
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Chapter 8 "Our Swedish Moses and Saviour": The Use of Biblical Leaders as Power Legitimization in Reformation Sweden --
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Part II: Holy City, Holy Land, Holy Relics: Geographical and Historical Reorientation --
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Chapter 9 Wittenberg: The Holy City --
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Chapter 10 Synchronizing the Holy Land: Sacred and Secular Cartography after the Reformation --
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Chapter 11 Danish Post-Reformation Crusaders: Jerusalem and Crusading in Denmark c.1550-1650 --
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Part III: Jerusalem Destroyed and Rebuilt: The Chosen People and the Pedagogy of God --
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Chapter 12 "Who Can Approach our Jerusalem without Weeping?": The Destruction of Jerusalem in Danish Sources, 1515-1729 --
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Chapter 13 Christiania 1651: A Spiritual Jerusalem --
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Chapter 14 Christiania - Jerusalem or Babel? Conflicts on Religious Topography in Seventeenth-Century Norway --
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Chapter 15 The Image of Jerusalem Destroyed: On Babel, Jerusalem, and the Antichrist in Luther's Confessional Polemic 1521 --
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Chapter 16 Rome: Jerusalem or Seat of the Antichrist? Lutheran Polemics in Sixteenth-Century Sweden --
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Part IV: Heavenly Jerusalem: Between Promise and Reality --
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Chapter 17 Jerusalem and the Lutheran Church Interior --
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Chapter 18 The Heavenly Jerusalem and the City Plan of Trondheim 1681 --
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Chapter 19 "The Song from Jerusalem": Thomas Kingo Frames the Absolute King and His Congregation --
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Chapter 20 Angels and the Muses of Zion: Michael Praetorius and Cultural Exchange between the Danish and German Lutheran Courts before the Thirty Years' War --
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Chapter 21 Consecrating the New Jerusalem in Tranquebar --
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Chapter 22 Future Jerusalem? Johann Valentin Andreae's Vision of Christianopolis --
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List of Contributors --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-063487-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110639452
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