Open Access“Like a faithful daughter she cherishes and nourishes in herself the remnants of Holy Jerusalem, her mother”: Acre as a Center for Church Practices in the 12th and 13th Centuries
Author(s) -
Wojciech Mruk
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
perspektywy kultury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-8014
pISSN - 2081-1446
DOI - 10.35765/pk.2020.3003.04
Subject(s) - pilgrimage , worship , writ , ancient history , history , state (computer science) , acre , residence , throne , period (music) , kingdom , religious studies , genealogy , theology , art , demography , law , sociology , political science , politics , philosophy , agroforestry , computer science , paleontology , aesthetics , algorithm , biology
In the history of Acre, located on the Syrian coast, the 12th and 13th centuries were of particular importance. Under the rule of the Crusaders, the city experienced a period of rapid demographic, economic, cultural, and religious growth. As the main port of the Kingdom of Jerusalem—and in the 13th century its capital as well—it was an important stop on the route of Latin pilgrims. Nevertheless, it was mentioned extremely rarely in the pilgrimage writings of that period, where information about the sites of worship in the city is scarce. This problem was noticed by Aryeh Graboïs and David Jacoby, but their attempts to explain this state of affairs need to be partly reexamined. The most important reason for the “silence of pilgrimage sources” about the city and its religious life seems to be the marginal presence of Acre in the pages of the Bible and its negligible place in the history of salvation.