Abstract
For more than a millennium, various authors fascinated by the Holy Land's architecture have tried to capture the most sacred Christian places' image. The presented contribution dealt with the Holy Land's sepulchral architecture from early medieval Latin authors' perspective.
These written sources represent the oldest surviving fragment of reports about monuments, which originated in the Holy Land from the beginning of the "Second Temple in Jerusalem period" (i.e., about 516 BC to 70 AD) and early Christianity. Most of these places are related to supposedburial places essential personalities from the Old and New Testaments.
In the introductory part of the article, we focused on monuments and Latin terminology's crucial characteristics. In the main part, we presented monuments using the comparative method.
We tried to reconstruct their appearance in the early Middle Ages. The presented corpus of sources is crucial for archaeologists and historians to complete the holy places' image and history before the Muslim invasion, which caused irreversible changes in this area.
It is also important to realize that these reports give a space of the medieval imagination about biblical landscape and its reception in Europe. Nevertheless, some of these testimonies question the attribution of individual monuments.
Thus, they prove that even when these sources wrote, the historical circumstances concerning the holy places were not unambiguous.