Devotional cross-roads practicing love of God in medieval Jerusalem, Gaul and Saxony

340 Pages·2019·11.323 MB·English

by  Hedwig Röckelein (editor), Galit Noga-Banai (editor), Lotem Pinchover (editor)

The collection of essays presented in “Devotional Cross-Roads: Practicing Love of
God in Medieval Gaul, Jerusalem, and Saxony” investigates test case witnesses of
Christian devotion and patronage from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, set in
and between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, as well as Gaul and the regions
north of the Alps. Devotional practice and love of God refer to people – mostly from
the lay and religious elite –, ideas, copies of texts, images, and material objects, such
as relics and reliquaries. The wide geographic borders and time span are used here
to illustrate a broad picture composed around questions of worship, identity, reli-
gious affiliation and gender. Among the diversity of cases, the studies presented in
this volume exemplify recurring themes, which occupied the Christian believer, such
as the veneration of the Cross, translation of architecture, pilgrimage and patronage,
emergence of iconography and devotional patterns.
These essays are representing the research results of the project “Practicing Love
of God: Comparing Women’s and Men’s Practice in Medieval Saxony” guided by the
art historian Galit Noga-Banai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the histori-
an Hedwig Röckelein, Georg-August-University Göttingen. This project was running
from 2013 to 2018 within the Niedersachsen-Israeli Program and financed by the
State of Lower Saxony.
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ISBN 978-3-86395-372-0 Universitätsverlag Göttingen Universitätsverlag Göttingen

Hedwig Röckelein, Galit Noga-Banai, and Lotem Pinchover (Eds.)
Devotional Cross-Roads

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Published by Göttingen University Press 2019
Devotional Cross-Roads:
Practicing Love of God in
Medieval Jerusalem, Gaul
and Saxony

Edited by Hedwig Röckelein,
Galit Noga-Banai, and
Lotem Pinchover

Göttingen University Press
2019
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The volume has been produced under the auspices of the research project “Practicing
Love of God: Comparing Women’s and Men’s Practice in Medieval Saxony.” Research
leading to these results has received funding by the “Niedersachsen-Israeli Programme”
of the Federal State of Lower Saxony.
The printing was supported by Georg August University of Göttingen

Address of the Editor
Prof. Dr. Hedwig Röckelein
E-mail: [email protected]

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Typesetting and layout: chair Prof. Röckelein
Cover design: Jutta Pabst
Cover picture: Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, inv. no. MA 168,
Pectoral Cross, front, eleventh century (photo © Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum
Braunschweig).

© 2019 Göttingen University Press
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ISBN: 978-3-86395-372-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2019-1164
Table of Contents

Maps ................................................................. vii
Preface ............................................................... ix
HEDWIG RÖCKELEIN, GALIT NOGA-BANAI AND LOTEM PINCHOVER
Introduction .......................................................... 1

I. THE VENERATION OF THE CROSS FROM LATE ANTIQUITY
TO THE MIDDLE AGES IN GAUL AND JERUSALEM

JUTTA DRESKEN-WEILAND
The Cross, the Iconography of the Crucifixion and the Relics of the
Holy Cross ........................................................... 11
SHIMRIT SHRIKI-HILBER
The Tomb Aedicule of Narbonne and its Significance within the
Theological Debates of Fifth Century Gaul ............................. 37
GALIT NOGA-BANAI
Architectural Frames for Relics of the True Cross – Two Frankish
Test Cases ............................................................ 63
ALEXANDER WINNEFELD
Jonas of Orléans and the Veneration of the Holy Cross in the
Carolingian Era ...................................................... 91
TIMO KIRSCHBERGER
The Kingdom of the Cross – Veneration of the Holy Cross in the
Crusader States ....................................................... 107
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II. PASSION, RELICS, PILGRIMAGE: RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
AND PATRONAGE IN MEDIEVAL SAXONY

MAI-BRITT WIECHMANN
Witnesses of Passion in Cistercian Houses – The Veneration of
Christ’s Relics in Walkenried, Mariengarten and Wienhausen ............ 125
HEDWIG RÖCKELEIN
The Cult of the Invisible – Relics in the Cistercian Houses Loccum
and Wienhausen ...................................................... 161
LOTEM PINCHOVER
Re-living Resurrection in Medieval Saxony – The Development of
New Imagery of the Resurrected Christ ................................ 211
KATHARINA KNESIA
The Endowment and Patronage of the Cistercian Houses of Marienfeld
and Saint Aegidii in Münster ........................................... 249
ROBIN VOLKMAR
The Aflat to Iherusalem – Spiritual Pilgrimage to Palestine’s Holy Sites
in the Augustinian Canonesses’ House of Heiningen .................... 275
Photo credits ......................................................... 305
Index of Names and Places ............................................ 307
Maps

Early Medieval Gaul (map © Hedwig Röckelein).
viii Maps