Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land

Abstract

The Holy Land has always played an important role in the imagination of the Latin Christian Middle Ages.As a multi-functional contact zone between Europe and Asia, it served as a region of diverse interactions between the three Abrahamic religions, was a destination for pilgrims, and a place where many disputes over territory took place.The armed crusades of 1099 by the Latin Christians led to the formation of the crusader states, which fell again after the final loss of Jerusalem in 1244 and the fall of Acre in 1291 to the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Khalil.Seizures and loss of territory resulted in the production of hundreds of travel and crusade accounts, as well as some of the first regional maps created in Europe for precisely this part of the world. 1 More than twenty maps 1 This article was developed from a paper that I gave at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds in 2011.

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