Abstract
Jerusalem in pilgrims' accounts ( 16th century) A holy city? If pilgrimages to Palestine be come scarcer during the I 6th century, literature still diffuses the image of Jerusalem as a "holy city", following the biblical tradition. However, Palestine is a territory of the Turkish empire, and Jerusalem shows a different face from the one that the Psalmist sung in the past times. This apparent paradox is an invitation to give a definition of what is a "holy city". In the context of a religion professing the Incarnation of God, the notion of "sanctitas" has to be considered as different from the notion of "sacralitas". Jerusalem is holy because "she" has been elected by God to be His Temple, and the place of Redemption. So, the profaned city, injured and wound by a chaotic History still keeps a substantial "sanctitas": moreover, in thefall itself, J erusalem participates to the oblation of the incarnated God.
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