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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 analyses this construction of a shared memory based on the continuous availability of these texts in the Franciscan library of Mount Zion, where they were copied and adapted to respond to new historical contexts. This book shows how the Franciscans developed a representation of the Holy Land by elaborating on its history and describing its religious groups and the geography of the region. This representation circulated among pilgrims and influenced how contemporaries imagined the Holy Land

Writing the Holy Land: The Franciscans of Mount Zion and the Construction of a Cultural Memory, 1300-1550

Table of Contents:

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures

Chapter I

Chapter II

The Franciscan Holy Land

The Convent of Mount Zion and Book Production and Circulation

Chapter IV

Early Franciscan Descriptions and Maps of the Holy Land

Franciscan Compilations, Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Composite Volumes on the Holy Land

Chapter VI

Franciscan Descriptions of the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century

Chapter VII

Between the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Franciscan Texts and Late Pilgrimage Accounts

Chapter X

Conclusions: Loss, Trauma, Recovery

Appendix

Bibliography

Index