{"product_id":"9781472451774","title":"Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500","description":"\u003ch1\u003eNatural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRenana Bartal | Neta Bodner | Bianca Kuhnel\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt \/ Subjects \u0026amp; Themes \/ Religious\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNatural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500,\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spirit of place. Since early Christianity, wood, earth, water and stone were taken from \u003ci\u003eloca sancta\u003c\/i\u003e to signify them elsewhere. Academic discourse has indiscriminately grouped material tokens from holy places and their containers with architectural and topographical emulations, two-dimensional images and bodily relics. However, unlike textual or visual representations, natural materials do not describe or interpret the Holy Land; they are part of it. Tangible and timeless, they realize the meaning of their place of origin in new locations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes earth, stones or bottled water transported from holy sites sacred? How do they become \u003ci\u003epars pro toto\u003c\/i\u003e, signifying the whole from which they were taken? This book will examine natural media used for translating \u003ci\u003eloca sancta, \u003c\/i\u003ethe processes of their sanctification and how, although inherently abstract, they become charged with meaning. It will address their metamorphosis, natural or induced; how they change the environment to which they are transported; their capacity to translate a static and distant site elsewhere; the effect of their relocation on users\/viewers; and how their containers and staging are used to communicate their substance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenana Bartal (PhD, Hebrew University, 2010) is Senior Lecturer at the department of Art History, Tel Aviv University. She has co-edited\u003cem\u003e Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel\u003c\/em\u003e (Leiden: Brill, 2015), and is the author of \u003ci\u003eGender, Piety and Production in Fourteenth Century Apocalypse Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e (New York: Ashgate\/Routledge, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeta B. Bodner (PhD, Hebrew University, 2016) is a Post-PhD fellow in the ERC-funded project ‘Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe’ at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bodner teaches in the Art History department of the Hebrew University and at the Open University in Raanana. She has published several articles about Pisan monuments, and architectural translations of Jerusalem to Vienna and northern Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBianca Kühnel\u003c\/strong\u003e is Jack Cotton Professor Emerita of Fine Arts and Architecture at the Department of the History of Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eFrom the Earthly to the Heavenly Jerusalem; Representations of the Holy City in Christian Art of the First Millennium\u003c\/i\u003e (Rome-Freiburg\/Br.-Vienna: Herder, 1987); \u003ci\u003eThe Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Art\u003c\/i\u003e, Special Issue of Jewish Art 23\/24, 1997\/1998; and \u003ci\u003eVisual Constructs of Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e, ed. with G. Noga-Banai and H. Vorholt (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21 April 2017\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTaylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRoutledge\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781472451774\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e300\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e32.5\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63535977496716,"sku":"9781472451774","price":224.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781472451774","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}