In loco Calvariae: l’uso funerario del Santo Sepolcro e la costruzione dell’ideologia regale franca in Outremer nell’Historia Hierosolymitana di Alberto di Aquisgrana

Abstract

Written in the first half of the XII Century, Albert of Aachen’s Historia Hierosolymitana describes the burials of duke Godfrey of Bouillon and his brother, king Baldwin I of Jerusalem, inside the complex of the Holy Sepulchre. Having outlined an overview of both the author and his work, the paper will focus on the relationship between these tombs – including their description in the text – and the elaboration of a political ideology able to justify the power and the own existence of the Latin monarchyin Jerusalem. In addition, this study will provide a structural reconstruction of these two royal monuments, looking for their morphological and typological models among contemporary funerary production.