Devotional cross-roads practicing love of God in medieval Jerusalem, Gaul and Saxony

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Table of Contents
Maps
Preface
Introduction
I. The Veneration of the Cross from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Gaul and Jerusalem
	The Cross, the Iconography of the Crucifixion and the Relics of the Holy Cross (Jutta Dresken-Weiland)
	The Tomb Aedicule of Narbonne and its Significance within the Theological Debates of Fifth Century Gaul (Shimrit Shriki-Hilber)
	Architectural Frames for Relics of the True Cross  – Two Frankish Test Cases (Galit Noga-Banai)
	Jonas of Orléans and the Veneration of the Holy Cross in the Carolingian Era (Alexander Winnefeld)
	The Kingdom of the Cross – Veneration of the Holy Cross in the Crusader States (Timo Kirschberger)
II. Passion, Relics, Pilgrimage: Religious Practice and Patronage in Medieval Saxony
	Witnesses of Passion in Cistercian Houses – The Veneration of Christ’s Relics in Walkenried, Mariengarten and Wienhausen (Mai-Britt Wiechmann)
	The Cult of the Invisible – Relics in the Cistercian Houses Loccum and Wienhausen (Hedwig Röckelein)
	Re-living Resurrection in Medieval Saxony – The Development of New Imagery of the Resurrected Christ (Lotem Pinchover)
	The Endowment and Patronage of the Cistercian Houses of Marienfeld and Saint Aegidii in Münster (Katharina Knesia)
	The Aflat to Iherusalem – Spiritual Pilgrimage to Palestine’s Holy Sites in the Augustinian Canonesses’ House of Heiningen (Robin Volkmar)
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Index of Names and Places
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