Essays exploring the influence of the sacred buildings of Jerusalem on architecture worldwide. Jerusalem - earthly and heavenly, past, present and future - has always informed the Christian imagination: it is the intersection of the divine and human worlds, of time and eternity. Since the fourth century, it has been the site of the round Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the empty tomb acknowledged by Constantine as the tomb of Christ. Nearly four hundred years later, the Sepulchre's rotunda was rivalled by the octagon of the Dome of the Rock. The city itself and these two glorious buildings within it remain, to this day, the focus of pilgrimage and of intense devotion.
Jerusalem and its numinous buildings have been distinctively re-imagined and re-presented in the design, topography, decoration and dedications of some very striking and beautiful churches and cities in Western Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Ethiopia. Some are famous, others are in the West almost unknown. The essays Inthis richly illustrated book combine to do justice to these evocative buildings' architecture, roles and history.
The volume begins with an introduction to the Sepulchre itself, from its construction under Constantine to theCrusaders' rebuilding which survives to this day. Chapters follow on the Dome of the Rock and on the later depiction and signifcance of the Jewish Temple. The essays then move further afeld, uncovering the links between Jerusalemand Byzantium, the Caucasus, Russia and Ethiopia. Northern Europe comes finally into focus, with chapters on Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, the role of the military orders in spreading the form of the Sepulchre, a gazetteer of English rounds, and studies of London's New Temple.
ROBIN GRIFFITH-JONES is Master of the Temple at the Temple Church in London and Senior Lecturer (Theology and Religious Studies) at King's College London. He co-edited The Temple Church in London with David Park (2010). ERIC FERNIE is Director Emeritus of The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Contributors: Alan Borg, Antony Eastmond, David Ekserdjian, Eric Fernie, Jaroslav Folda,
Emmanuel Fritsch, Michael Gervers,
Robin Griffith-Jones,
Nicole Hamonic, Cecily Hennessy, Robert Hillenbrand, Catherine E. Hundley, Philip J. Lankester, Robin Milner-Gulland, Robert Ousterhout, David W. Phillipson, Denys Pringle, Sebastian Salvado.
Introduction Public, private and political Devotion: Re-presenting the Sepulchre - Robin Griffith-Jones The Building of the Holy Sepulchre - Robin Griffith-Jones The Crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Denys Pringle The Crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Design, Depiction and the Pilgrim Church of Compostela - Jaroslav Folda Medieval Muslim Veneration of the Dome of the Rock - Robert Hillenbrand The Temple as Symbol, the Temple as Metaphor: contrasting Eastern and Western Re-imaginings - Robert Ousterhout Spiral Columns and the Temple of Solomon - Eric C Fernie Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin and the Temple at Jerusalem in the Italian Renaissance Imagination - David Ekserdjian 'I have defeated you, Solomon' - Robin Griffith-Jones Saint James the Just: Sacral Topgraphy in Jerusalem and Constantinople - Cecily Hennessy Jerusalems in the Caucasus? - Antony Eastmond Holy Russia and the 'Jerusalem Idea' - Robin Milner-Gulland Jerusalem and the Ethiopian Church: the Evidence of Roha (Lalibela) - David W. Phillipson The Origins and Meaning of the Ethiopian Circular Church: Fresh Explorations - Emmanuel Fritsch Arculf's Circles, Aachen's Octagon, Germigny's Cube: Three Riddles from Northern Europe - Robin Griffith-Jones Representations of the Holy Sepulchre - Eric C Fernie The Military Orders and the Idea of the Holy Sepulchre - Alan Borg The English Round Church Movement - Catherine E. Hundley The Use and Meaning of the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Round Churches of England - Michael Gervers Jerusalem in London: the New Temple Church - Nicole Hamonic Commemorating the Rotunda in the Round: The Medieval Latin Liturgy of the Holy Sepulchre and its Performance in the West - Sebastian Salvado The Temple Church in the Crusades - Robin Griffith-Jones Epilogue - Robin Griffith-Jones
Reviews for Tomb and Temple: Re-imagining the Sacred Buildings of Jerusalem
A wide-ranging, fascinating and sometimes surprising story...[It presents] a dense and rich accumulation of different insights. THE CHURCH TIMES
