Neta B. Bodner is a postdoctoral research fellow in the project studying the architecture of Jewish ritual baths (mikvaot) in Ashkenaz between 1100-1350. The focus of her PhD dissertation was the communication of meaning through architecture in Pisa’s Cathedral square between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. She has published three articles deriving from her PhD, each showing several means for representing Holy Land sites in Pisa through its major monuments. She has also published papers on the translation of Jerusalem to Vienna and Varallo (Italy) through architectural complexes in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Bodner has co-edited a volume dedicated to the use of natural materials for the visual translation of place between 500-1500 with Dr. Renana Bartal and Prof. Bianca Kühnel. She currently teaches Christian and Medieval Art and Architecture at the Hebrew University and the Open University of Israel and is working on a second edited book as a concluding publication of the project “Spectrum: Visual Translations of Jerusalem to Europe”. 

Publications:

Renana Bartal, Neta B. Bodner and Bianca Kühnel eds. Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2017)

‘Why are there Two Medieval Copies of the Holy Sepulchre in Pisa? A Comparative Analysis of San Sepolcro and the Baptistery’, Viator 48.3 (Autumn 2017)

‘Earth from Jerusalem in the Pisan Camposanto’, in: Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel, Renana Bartal and Hana Vorholt eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 74-93

‘The Baptistery of Pisa and the Rotunda of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – a re-consideration’, in: Visual Constructs of Jerusalem, Bianca Kuehnel, Galit Noga-Banai, and Hanna Vorholt eds. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 95-105

The Pilgrimage Path from Stephansdom to Hernals: Walking to ‘Jerusalem’ from Vienna (Jerusalem: SPECTRUM, 2014)

‘The Kreuzweg of Vienna: Local History and Universal Salvation’ in: From the Industrial Revolution to World War II in East Central Europe, Europa Orientalis, vol.12 Marija Wakounig and Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler eds. (Vienna: Universität Wien, 2011), pp. 225-239

‘Transcending Geography: the Architectural Transportation of Sanctity from the Holy Land to the Home Land’, in: United in Visual Diversity. Images and Counter-Images of Europe, Benjamin Drechsel and Claus Leggewie eds. (Innsbruk: Studien Verlag, 2010), pp. 238-249