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The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land: Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance

Kathryn Blair Moore

"In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout this period, buildings were reinterpreted in relation to the mediating role of textual and pictorial representations that shaped the pilgrimage experience across expansive geographies. In this study, Kathryn Blair Moore challenges fundamental ideas within architectural history regarding the origins and significance of European recreations of buildings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth. From these conceptual foundations, she traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts, from the First Crusade and the emergence of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to the anti-Islamic crusade movements of the Renaissance, as well as the Reformation." -- Publisher's description.

HistoryHistory · medium confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryGoogle Books: Christian antiquities -> ReligionAward Category: PROSE Award for Art History and Criticism -> Arts & CriticismEssays & Cultural CriticismFood, Agriculture & LandReligion & Religious MovementsIntellectual History & Ideas

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Art History and Criticism2018WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Jerusalem82%
    • Bethlehem78%
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    • Nazareth65%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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    Kathryn Blair Moore argues that changing religious and political contexts shaped the Holy Land’s architecture and that European recreations of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth should not be understood via earlier architectural-historical origin claims.

    Model confidence 58%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.