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In Chosen Places. Constructing New
Jelena Erdeljan, Ph.D. (2008),
University of Belgrade, is Professor
of Art History at that University.
She has published monographs,
articles and edited volumes on aspects
of visual culture of medieval and early
modern Balkans.
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Chosen Places
e a s t c e n t r a l a n d e a s t e r n e u rope i n t h e m i ddl e age s , 450 -1450
e a s t c e n t r a l a n d e a s t e r n e u rope i n t h e m i ddl e age s , 450 -1450
Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa, Jelena
Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament ECEE
topic of the divinely-chosen status of Constructing New Jerusalems
Jerusalem and translatio Hierosolymi,
including the history, process and media
in Slavia Orthodoxa
Erdeljan Chosen Places
of formulating and disseminating this
idea and its spatial-visual matrix in
Christian visual culture. Firstly the study
presents the case of Constantinople, the 
capital of the Byzantine Empire, as New
Jerusalem, and secondly, in relation
to Constatinople, discussion focuses Jelena Erdeljan
on the cases of the capitals of Slavia
Orthodoxa in the later Middle Ages:
Turnovo, Belgrade and Moscow. The
idea of Jerusalem corresponds with the
idea of a mystical center, the center of the
historical Christian world, which travels
and follows the path of eschatologial
realisation.
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