LITURGY AND RITUAL SPACE IN LATIN JERUSALEM

This paper examines how religious and civic rituals in twelfth-century Latin Jerusalem interacted with the newly configured urban space. The liturgical program and rituals of public worship were constructed in dialogue with preexisting sacred topography. This program also interacted with Eastern and Western liturgical traditions, and contributed novel themes that were perceived as befitting the status of the capital of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the increased pilgrimage to the holiest places in Christendom. This new ritual program presented its creators with challenges as well as with opportunities for innovation in their usage of ritual space.