Jerusalem

Vincent Lemire is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Gustave Eiffel University, Director of the Open Jerusalem European Research Council project, and Director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem. His most recent book is Jerusalem 1900: The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities.  Katell Berthelot is a historian working on Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods and Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research and Aix-Marseille University. She is the author of In Search of the Promised Land? The Hasmonean Dynasty between Biblical Models and Hellenistic Diplomacy and Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel.  Julien Loiseau is Professor of the History of the Medieval Islamic World at Aix-Marseille University and former Director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem. A historian and Arabist, he has devoted his research to Egypt, Palestine, and Ethiopia in the Middle Ages. He is the author of The Mamluks: Political Experience in Medieval Islam.  Yann Potin, a historian and archivist, is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Archives and Associate Professor of Legal History at the Institute of Public Law and Political and Social Sciences at Sorbonne Paris North University. He is coeditor of France in the World: A New Global History.Juliana Froggatt is an editor and translator who lives in Ferney-Voltaire, France.

• List of MapsIntroduction. Spirits of Places, Fractures in Time: Toward a New History of Jerusalem1. The Birth of a Holy City: 4000 BCE to Second Century CE2. Roman Pantheon, Christian Reliquary, and Jewish Traditions: Second to Seventh Centuries3. In the Empire of the Caliphs: Seventh to Eleventh Centuries4. Jerusalem, Capital of the Frankish Kingdom: 1099–11875. From Saladin to Süleyman: The Islamization of the Holy City, 1187–15666. The Peace of the Ottomans: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries7. The Impossible Capital? Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century Conclusion. The Memory of the Dead, the History of the Living ChronologyNotesBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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