The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land

Abstract

Kathryn Blair Moore, The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land. Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017. 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 a...