@inbook{7bc3b4f149d946be9a322ad2d7e6cf2b,
title = "Herrschaft {\"u}ber Jerusalem und die Kartographie der heiligen Stadt",
abstract = "The article addresses the political dimension of Western medieval maps, focusing on maps of Jerusalem from the conquest in 1099 to the loss of the city in 1187. After providing a survey of the known maps from this period, the first part of the chapter discusses the transmission context of the three earliest and closely related examples, focusing especially on their association with images of the Heavenly Jerualem and their placement within a chronicle of the first Crusade, where the map precedes and introduces the actual account of the conquest of the city. The second part of the article is concerned with the palace which the Crusader kings are thought to have built in the 1160s near the Tower of David. Very few visual and textual sources about this palace are known to have survived. The article brings together the visual evidence, and newly identifies and analyses a detailed depiction in one of the twelfth century maps of the city. It examines the way in which the palace and the Tower of David are represented on this map in relation to the broader endeavour of the crusader kings to position themselves in the symbolic succession of the kings of Israel. The chapter demonstrates that the maps not only transmitted specific knowledge about the city but were also an integral part in promoting a specific image of the city in its political dimension, thus forming part of the interaction between the crusader kingdom and the West. ",
author = "Hanna Vorholt",
year = "2012",
language = "German",
isbn = "9783034010191",
series = "Medianwandel-Medienwechsel-Medienwissen",
publisher = "Chronos",
pages = "211--228",
editor = "Ingrid Baumgaertner and Martina Stercken",
booktitle = "Herrschaft verorten",
}