Reflecting Jerusalem in the Medieval Czech Lands maps the reception, reflection, and translation of Jerusalem in medieval Czech lands. The volume deals with Jerusalem as an idea and traces it not only in time but in various forms of art as well – such as architecture, book and wall-painting, and different literary genres – with the aim of covering the whole spectrum of Jerusalem images in medieval Czech lands. Special attention is paid to the interim period, when the Czech lands “lost” direct contact with the Holy Land and the idea of Jerusalem was mediated through Western European and Italian sources.

Anna Kernbach is a historian and Latin philologist. In recent years, she has been collaborating externally on projects dealing with the history of the High and Late Middle Ages, where she can apply her knowledge of codicology, palaeography, editorial work, and Latin medieval literature. Externally, she also works as an editor and proofreader of scientific texts.

Lenka Panusková has been working at the Department of Medieval Art of Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences since 2009. In her career, she has taught at the Charles University and University in Ostrava. Her main areas of interest include medieval iconography, female spirituality, illuminated manuscripts and their functions, astronomy and astrology in the Middle Ages and the art of Anglo-Saxon England.

Daniel Soukup works at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences and teaches at the Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre for Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Palack. University in Olomouc. He is interested in the intersection of Jewish and Czech Studies in the area of medieval and early modern literature and culture.

Preface

Introduction by Bianca Kühnel

I. Czech Pilgrims and Participants in the Crusades to Jerusalem at the Time of the P.emyslids - Petr Kubín

II. Traces of Jerusalem during the Office of the Olomouc Bishop Henry Zdík (1083–1150) - Iva Adámková and Dalibor Havel

III. One and Many Jerusalems: the Image of the Holy City in the Period of Charles IV - Kate.ina Kubínová

IV. Heavenly Jerusalem and Hans Sedlmayr in Socialist Czechoslovakia - Milena Bartlová

V. Visions of Jerusalem: Forms and Functions of the Holy City depictions in Bohemian Manuscripts - Lenka Panusková

VI. Heavenly Jerusalem in Bohemian Utraquist Thought: Images of the Heavenly City in the Jena Codex - Milada Studnicková, Petra Mutlová and Katerina Hornícková

VII. Transformations of Jerusalem in Bohemian Murals - Jan Dienstbier

VIII. Jerusalem and the Holy Land in Vernacular Medieval Literature in Bohemia - Matous Turek

IX. Direct and Indirect Transfer of Jerusalem in Fifteenth-Century Bohemian Travel Accounts - Jaroslav Svátek

X. Uprooted Jerusalem. The Destruction of the Holy City in Medieval Bohemian Literature - Daniel Soukup