Contested Space: Jerusalem during the Crusades and Counter-Crusades
Contested Space/ Shared Space? “The most holy, most royal, most noble, and magnificent above all cities of the world… For all generations of the world call you holy, as from the first Christians, Jews, Saracens, Jacobites, Nestorians, Georgians, Ethiopians, Copts, Arabs, Turks, Berbers, and Pagans.” Niccolò, a Franciscan friar from Poggibonsi, Tuscany (1348) Shared/Contested Heritage “The uniqueness of Jerusalem is that most of its memories were Jewish, but that these Jewish memories became Christian, and Christian and Jewish memories became Muslim. Alone, of all the holy cities in the world, the space of Jerusalem could accommodate all these pious expressions in every one of their confessional garbs." (Oleg Grabar, Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, New York: 1999, p. 285)
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