The Holiest Ground in the World
How the crusaders transformed Jerusalem’s Temple Mount
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Endnotes
Francesco Gabrieli, ed., Arab Historians of the Crusades: Selected and Translated from the Arabic Sources (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1969), p. 169.
See Priscilla Soucek, “The Temple of Solomon in Islamic Legend and Art,” in The Temple of Solomon: Archaeological Fact and Medieval Tradition in Christian, Islamic and Jewish Art, ed. Joseph Gutmann (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1976).
Raymond of Aguilers, chaplain to the Count of Toulouse, in Edward Peters, ed., The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1971), p. 214.
Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, “The Early Islamic Monuments of al-Haram al-Sharif: An Iconographic Study,” Qedem 28 (Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew Univ., 1989), p. 44.
Camille Enlart, Les monuments des Croisés dans le Royaume de Jérusalem: Architecture religieuse et civile, vol. 2 (Paris: Geuthner, 1928), p. 208.
For example, the “Ottobonian Guide” of c. 1103 and the guide known by its incipit Qualiter, in Wilkinson, Pilgrimage, pp. 91–92.
Two transcriptions of the texts exist, one by John of Würzburg and another by Theoderic. I follow Theoderic’s order for the inscriptions (Wilkinson, Pilgrimage, pp. 289–290).
A more scripturally savvy author found fault with this commemoration, pointing out that the vision of Jacob took place at Bethel, well north of Jerusalem. The author in question is John of Würzburg (Wilkinson, Pilgrimage, pp. 291, 247).
Bernard Hamilton, “Rebuilding Zion: The Holy Places of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century,” Studies in Church History 14 (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1977), p. 110.
Marie Louis de Mas-Latrie, Chronique d’Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier, Publications de la Société de l’Histoire de France, 157 (Paris, 1871), p. 497.
Zehava Jacoby, “The Workshop of the Temple Area in Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century: Its Origin, Evolution and Impact,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 45 (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1982), p. 328; Helmut Buschhausen, Die süditalienische Bauplastik im Königreich Jerusalem, Denkschriften der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 108 (Vienna, 1979), p. 225.
Jaroslav Folda, Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land: 1098–1187 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995), p. 253.
Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture, 2nd ed. (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1989), p. 77.