TY - BOOK AU - Shawcross,Teresa ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Wisdom's House, Heaven's Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages T2 - New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture, SN - 9783031352638 AV - D111-203 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Europe KW - History KW - 476-1492 KW - Middle East KW - Religion KW - History of Medieval Europe KW - History of the Middle East KW - History of Religion N1 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Reframing the Question of Athens and Jerusalem -- Chapter 2. The Parthenon from Temple to Church -- Chapter 3. A Miracle of Heavenly Fire -- Chapter 4. The Relocation of Jerusalem -- Chapter 5. The Light of Hellenism in Empire and Caliphate -- Chapter 6. Wisdom: Lady of the Temple, Lady of the Red Thread -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: The City on a Hill N2 - Taking as its starting point an investigation into the physical topography and symbolism of the two cities of Athens and Jerusalem, this book offers a cultural history of the rival superpowers—the Byzantine Empire and Fatimid Caliphate—that between them dominated the Mediterranean world during the Central Middle Ages. It shows that the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on the orders of al-Hakim punctuated a century of heightened interaction resulting from changing patterns of warfare, trade and pilgrimage. Resettlement of both Christians and Muslims from Syria-Palestine in Asia Minor and the Balkans introduced these migrants’ host culture to new forms of religious and artistic expression. In Hellas, a flurry of building projects reinvented Athens as a New Jerusalem and the Parthenon as a New Temple. The Acropolis became famous for its miraculous lamp and elaborate liturgy. The clergy who performed the sacred mysteries justified them with reference to concepts of hierarchy, illumination and divinisation. These concepts were derived from a philosophical tradition over whose ownership the two superpowers competed. The resulting political theology was the creation of male intellectuals, but female patrons and worshippers also had an impact UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35263-8 ER -