Imagining Place and Moralizing Space: Jerusalem at Medieval Westminster
Laura Slater
Monuments and landscape ensembles across medieval Europe recreated the Christian holy places of Jerusalem for local devotees. Contemporary legends surrounding death King Henry IV in 1413, who died Chamber abbot’s house at Westminster Abbey, place room firmly within this cultural tradition. In sixteenth century, a neighbouring Jericho Parlour was built. This paper highlights political significances such “recreated Jerusalem” sites: contrast to religious demographic diversity found earthly city, connection with European crusading imperial ambitions. Exploring “death topos detail, it argues that should not be understood as place. Instead, links Holy Land form part an imaginative reinvention space Westminster, deliberately intended provoke moral admonition self-scrutiny its users.
British Art Studies|Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)