ID - 131790447 TI - Writing the Holy Land AU - Campopiano, Michele AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2020 SN - 9783030527747 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Book history KW - Old English literature KW - History of Europe KW - History of Asia KW - geschiedenis KW - literatuur KW - Europese geschiedenis KW - middeleeuwen KW - boeken KW - anno 500-1499 KW - Middle East KW - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131790447 AB - The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the Convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, who welcomed and guided pilgrims. This book analyzes this work of construction of a shared memory based on the continuous availability of these texts in the Franciscan library of Mount Zion, where these texts were changed and adapted to respond to new historical contexts. It shows how the representation of the Holy Land developed by the Franciscans in these centuries as they elaborated on the history described different religious groups and the geography of the region. This book reveals how this representation was shared among pilgrims in the library of Mount Zion itself and beyond. Michele Campopiano is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of York, UK. He has participated in a number of international projects and held several grants, including a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. ER -