Ideology and landscape in early printed maps of Jerusalem

R. Rubin

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Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to use these early printed maps of Jerusalem as a series of case-studies, showing how Christian-European values, ideas and propaganda were transferred through maps. Reviewing the numerous maps of Jerusalem brings about a distinction between two main categories of maps. The maps in the first category described an imaginary historical-Biblical Jerusalem. Most of these maps were drawn by artists and scholars who had never visited the city. The second group of maps, defined as the "realistic' ones, claimed to portray contemporary Jerusalem. Some were drawn by pilgrims and travellers, based on their own impressions, while others are copies and imitations drawn in Europe by people who had never seen the city but who used eye-witnesses' maps as a basis for their work. In this discussion we shall look at the maps which were drawn by people who had actually visited Jerusalem, and whose maps were based upon direct eye-witness impressions, and which can justly be defined as "realistic', for example, the Quaresmius map of Jerusalem. The study of these maps shows that even the most reliable ones, drawn by people who stayed in Jerusalem, contain important ideological elements. The following case-studies identify examples of these ideological elements in maps drawn between the 15th and the 18th centuries. -from Author

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15-30
Number of pages16
JournalUnknown Journal
StatePublished - 1992

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