The <i>Visitatio Sepulchri</i> in the Latin Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
Iris Shagrir
The presentation of the Visitatio Sepulchri scene by Augustinian canons Church Holy Sepulchre brought it, for first time, to its original locus. popular ritual re-enacts dialogue between women and angel/s at empty tomb, annunciation resurrection Christ. Jerusalem was modelled upon Western European dramatic ritual, but in Anastasis Jerusalem, on Easter morning, not a straightforward act relocating liturgy into recently recovered Catholic centre east. Based study liturgical manuscript from Sepulchre, paper examines ways this other rituals employ space newly built Crusader church, which Frankish interacts with composite audience twelfth-century Jerusalem.
Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean