Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa

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Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa is written by Jelena Erdeljan and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004345795 (ISBN 10) and 9789004345799 (ISBN 13).

In Chosen Places. Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa, Jelena Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament topic of the divinely-chosen status of Jerusalem and translatio Hierosolymi, including the history, process and media of formulating and disseminating this idea and its spatial-visual matrix in Christian visual culture. Firstly the study presents the case of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, as New Jerusalem, and secondly, in relation to Constatinople, discussion focuses on the cases of the capitals of Slavia Orthodoxa in the later Middle Ages: Turnovo, Belgrade and Moscow. The idea of Jerusalem corresponds with the idea of a mystical center, the center of the historical Christian world, which travels and follows the path of eschatologial realisation.