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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Holy Land"”.
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Thietmar : person, place and text in thirteenth-century Holy Land pilgrimage
… by a certain Thietmar, who travelled to the Holy Land in 1217, and is well known for its frequent references to interactions with the indigenous Christian and non-Christian inhabitants of the Holy Land as well as being the first pilgrim to describe Saint Katherine’s tomb on Mount Sinai. The …
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Evangelical Tours to the Holy Land: A Study on the Theopolitics of Christian Pilgrimages
"The fieldwork upon which all three studies that construct the body of this dissertation are based was conducted in East-Central Illinois, where an evangelical couple organizes trips to Israel as part of a larger set of religious activities they coordinate as managers of an evangelical radio …
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Localizing the Holy Land: The Visual Culture of Crusade in England, circa 1140-1307
… of the crusade movement and devotion to the holy city of Jerusalem on English visual culture, religious imagination and identity. The crusade movement concurrently formed dynamic international networks and disturbed geographic, cultural, religious and social boundaries in both the East and …
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Strengthening the Christian presence in the Holy Land through the implementation of a strategic planning programme
… on strengthening the Christian presence in the Holy Land that has been in existence for more than 2,000 years. The Christian presence there is not only about maintaining and preserving the holy shrines related to Christianity. It is also about maintaining and preserving the local Christian …
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Russia in the Holy Land: Acting upon Imperial Russia's Soft Power in the Schools of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1882-1914)
… in Jerusalem in the 1830s transformed the Holy Land into yet another scenario where the rivalries among the Great Powers for influence over the decaying Ottoman Empire could unfold. The pretext: the Great Powers’ ‘historical’ and ‘moral’ role as protectors of Christian minorities under …
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The Great Men of Christendom: The Failure of the Third Crusade
… which plagued the expeditions to the Holy Land. The Christians in the Holy Land were not selfsufficient, and they depended on an extensive amount of aid from Europe for their existence, but the Christians of Europe had their own goals and concerns which did not allow them to focus on …
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Mandeville's Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
… the matter of the East with the matter of the Holy Land, <italic>The Travels</italic> circulated widely in over 300 manuscripts, making it an important text when studying medieval Christian attitudes toward non-Christians. Although many scholars point to <italic>The Travels</italic> as a …
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Christian Zionism and doctrinal islamophobia: Expediting the end times
… believe that the return of Jews to the Holy Land of Israel and the establishment of a Jewish state in that land in 1948 happened as the fulfilment of Bible prophecy. Christian Zionists believe that Jewish sovereignty in Israel is a necessary step in bringing about the Battle of …
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The Emotional Rhetoric of the Later Crusades: Romance in England after 1291
… by the enterprise's failures. The loss of the Holy Land had enduring repercussions on Christian crusading mindsets, marking a culminating point in Islam's seemingly relentless victories in wars believed to be ordained by God, and the collapse of Christendom's ambitions to secure lasting …
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Internal colonialism and social control in the Age of Terror : the FBI's war on Islamic charities following the September 11th Attacks of 2001
… of the nation's largest Islamic charity, The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, followed these themes, but unexpectedly ended in failure for the U.S. government's case which ended in mistrial.
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From the Resurrection to the Ascension: Christ's post Resurrection appearances in Byzantine Art
… it becomes apparent that the pilgrimage in the Holy Land and the liturgy that was taking place there is responsible for many iconographic details which help us discern the dissemination of a particular iconography.
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The journal of Roberto da Sanseverino (1417-1487) : a study on navigation and seafaring in the fifteenth century
… da Sanseverino went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1458. He travelled from Venice to Jaffa on a galley and made his return, from Acre to Ancona, on a three-masted sailing ship. During both voyages he kept very accurate logs of distances, courses and wind directions. He described the …
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‘One of the nobelyst knyghtes of the worlde, and most perfitist man’: the role of Bors in Malory’s Morte Darthur.
… faith are first tested. During the quest for the Holy Grail, Bors is one of just three knights who succeed in the quest and travel to the Holy Land, and the only one of the three to return to England to give an account of these events. It would would appear that the significance of the figure of …
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Doctrinal Controversy and the Church Economy of Post-Chalcedon Palestine
… for Palestine in its status as the Christian ‘Holy Land.’ Here I explore this facet of Chalcedon’s legacy, whilst considering how the language of doctrinal controversy generated by the Council served to frame episodes of material competition between rival communities of clerics and monks. The …
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La "Descriptio de locis sanctis" di Rorgone Fretello. Analisi della tradizione manoscritta e edizione critica
… spiritual and geographical guide to the Holy Land, the "Descriptio de locis sanctis", dated back to the first half of the 12th century. Thus far, two versions of this text are known. The first one is dedicated to the Bohemian bishop Henricus Sdyck and it was composed on the occasion of …
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Walking On The World: Landscape And Geographic Microcosms In Roman Floor Mosaics
… this debate, in the form of floor mosaics with landscape and geographic imagery, to demonstrate that cartographic understandings of space were possible and wide-ranging. These mosaics display varied places like labeled Mediterranean islands, wild hunting grounds, and the Christian Holy Land. …
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
… Having inherited a Puritan perspective regarding land and respecting social cohesion, many Americans in the nineteenth century practiced aristocratic hospitality, a hospitality often dictated by class or religious practices that emphasized conformity in an effort to mitigate fear and minimize …
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"Imagined crusaders: the ""Livre d'Eracles"" in fifteenth century Burgundian collections"
… of Burgundy, centered in the Burgundian Netherlands. It considers four individuals, Jean V of Créquy, Wolfert VI of Borssele, Louis of Gruuthuse, and King Edward IV of England, all of whom moved in the orbit of the fifteenth-century Burgundian dukes, and analyzes how their political activities …
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Cypriot Donor Portraiture: Constructing the Ideal Family
… glimpse into the culture and people of this island as constructed within the medium of portraiture. They provide visual evidence of the donors' ideals of family in these lasting monuments to their memory. There are noticeable changes in these portraits through time that indicate the shifting …
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True flesh: pilgrimage, measure, and perfecting the human in Dante’s 'Commedia'
… of the actual practice of pilgrimage to holy sites such as Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela, as well as of the Biblical Exodus, a journey from the exile of earthly life to the true patria of Heaven. Yet, since the middle of the 20th century, this label has been taken for granted, …
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