Imagining Jerusalem, c. 1099 to the Present Day
11-12 February 2014, University of York
The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
Workshop 1 – ‘Imagination’
Suggested Reading
Session 1 - ‘Imagining’ Jerusalem
What does it mean to 'imagine' Jerusalem? Recent critical and theoretical work has done much to
expand our concept of the city as a space of imagination, nostalgia and political thinking, as well as a
concrete place. However, many accounts of the imagined city take the first of these potent terms -imagination -- too much for granted.
We want to consider what it means to imagine a city, and what kinds of imaginative work Jerusalem
has been asked to perform. How and why do people imagine urban or iconic spaces and places? Is
Jerusalem imagined as a past, present, or future city? Is it always imagined as city or civic space?
How is Jerusalem used to imagine the self / the political / the local / the national? What is the
relationship between imagination, memory, and perception? And how can we locate these
relationships and questions both within and across traditional disciplinary and period boundaries?
Session 2 - Approaching and Mapping Jerusalem in c. 17th and c. 18th Travel
Narratives- led by Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3, France)
In this session, Claire will provide a brief introduction to the texts and period before leading into a
group discussion. She has suggested the following questions and points to consider while reading
the texts.
Why and how did one travel to Jerusalem in the early modern period and in the eighteenth century?
How was the city approached? What was Jerusalem for a 17th-18th century British traveller? You
might also like to think about the following points in relation to the extracts:
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The topography of Jerusalem
The tropology of Jerusalem
Paradigms and new visions/perspectives
Revisiting
Facts and fiction
Pleasure of imagining versus pleasure of narrating Jerusalem
Frontiers, liminal spaces, and palimpests
Possession, dispossession, reclaiming grounds
Session 3 - The Pedestrian Imagination
In this session, we will ask what is specific to experiencing the city of Jerusalem on foot, and how
acts of perception, imagination, and perambulation coincide. We will add two further accounts of
walking Jerusalem, from either historical side of the texts we have studied with Claire, in order to
explore the embodied imagination, the narrative structure of experience, and this cumulative textual
tradition.
Imagining Jerusalem, c. 1099 to the Present Day
11-12 February 2014, University of York
The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
Session 1 - ‘Imagining’ Jerusalem
Primary reading:
 Æthelwulf, De Abbatibus, ed. A. Campbell. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1967), pp. 54-57. (A ninth
century dream or vision of the heavenly city). Available from: http://ow.ly/d/1Q4a
 Amichai, Yehuda. ‘Love of Jerusalem’, tr. Benjamin and Barbara Harshav (New York:
HarperPerennial, 1995). Available from: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-ofjerusalem/
 Miéville, China. The City and the City. (London: Macmillan, 2009)
 Porat, Elisha. 'My Jerusalem Syndrome', tr. Zehava Lerech, in Offcourse 28 (2006). Available
from: http://www.albany.edu/offcourse/fall06/story_porat.html
 Sebald, W. G. The Rings of Saturn, tr. Michael Hulse (London: Vintage, 2002), pp. 214-249.
Available from: http://ow.ly/d/1Q45
 --- --------------The Emigrants, tr. Michael Hulse (London: Vintage, 2002), pp. 136-145.
Available from: http://ow.ly/d/1PLv
Secondary reading:
 Doumani, Beshara. 'Archiving Palestine and the Palestinians: the Patrimony of Ihsan Nimr',
Jerusalem Quarterly 36 (2009), pp. 3-12. Available from:
http://history.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/archiving_0.pdf
 ‘'Jerusalem, Jerusalem' Tells A Tale Of Two Cities’, All Things Considered [radio programme].
Prod. unknown. NPR, US, 14/7/11. 7min 10. Available from:
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/12/134458595/jerusalem-jerusalem-tells-a-tale-of-two-cities)
 Mazza, Roberto. 'Missing Voices in Rediscovering Late Ottoman and Early British Jerusalem',
Jerusalem Quarterly 53 (2013), pp. 61-71. Available from:
http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/images/ArticlesPdf/JQ_53_Missing_voices.pdf
 Rudy, Kathryn M. Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent: Imagining Jerusalem in the Middle
Ages(Belgium: Brepols, 2011) Available from: http://ow.ly/d/1QpB
 Scarry, Elaine. Dreaming by the Book (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1999), pp. 3-9.
Available from: http://ow.ly/d/1PLx
Session 2 - Approaching and Mapping Jerusalem in c. 17th and c. 18th Travel
Narratives- led by Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3, France)
Texts attached to email as two PDF documents.
‘Essentials’:
 Sandys, George. Relation of a Iourney begun Anno Domini I6Io,in Four Books (London,
1615), pp. 154-175, pp. 183-200.
 Maundrell, Henry. Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 (Oxford, 1703),
pp. 65-77, pp. 93-109.
 Pococke, Richard. “Book the First. Of Palestine, or the Holy Land” in Description of the
East, and Some Other Countries: Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, Candia, Greece.
Asia Minor, Etc (London, 1743), Vol. 2, Book 1, pp. 7-30.
 Clarke, Edward Daniel. Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Part the
Second. Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Section the First. (New York: Whiting and Watson,
1813), pp. 306-336.
Extras:
Imagining Jerusalem, c. 1099 to the Present Day
11-12 February 2014, University of York
The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
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Lithgow, William. The total discourse… (London: I. Okes, 1640), pp.237-252, pp.264-274.
Hill, Aaron. Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire in All Its
Branches: With the Government, and Policy, Religion, Customs (London, 1709), p.275-290.
Perry, Charles. A View of the Levant: Particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and
Greece… (London, 1743), part II, pp. 123-127, pp. 129-132.
Thompson, Charles. The Travels of the Late C. Thompson (Containing His Observations on
France, Italy, Turkey in Europe... and Many Other Parts of the World... with a Curious
Description of Jerusalem... 3 vols (London, 1744), 3: pp. 124-141, pp. 178-193.
Campbell, John. Travels through Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and the Holy Land. Containing,
among Many Other Curious Particulars, I. A Description of Egypt, the River ... (London,
1758), pp. 193-212.
Wittman, William. Travels in Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria and across the Desert into Egypt
(1803), pp. 155-169.
Session 3 - The Pedestrian Imagination
Primary reading:
 Mandeville, John. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, ed. Anthony Bale (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012) Available from: http://ow.ly/d/1QpD
 Kollek, Teddy, and Shulamith Eisner, My Jerusalem: Twelve Walks in the Word's Holiest City
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990) Available from: http://ow.ly/d/1RFL
 Shehadeh, Raja. Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (London: Profile Books,
2008)
 Thomas, Mark. Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel’s Barrier. For Fun (London: Ebury Press,
2011)
Secondary reading:
 John Frow, 'Tourism and the Semiotics of Nostalgia,’ October 57 (1991), pp. 123-151.
Available from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/778875
 Tim Ingold, 'Culture on the Ground: the World Perceived Through the Feet,’ Journal of
Material Culture 9: 3 (2004), pp. 315-340. Available from:
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/tourist/feet.pdf