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From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin: The Metamorphosis and Manipulation of a Legend

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  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.1 x 23.9 x 1.6 cm

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According to legend, the Mandylion was an image of Christ's face imprinted on a towel, kept in Edessa. This acheiopoieton image ("not made by human hands") disappeared in the eighteenth century. The first records of another acheiropoieton relic appeared in mid-fourteenth century France: a long linen bearing the image of Jesus' corpse, known nowadays as the Holy Shroud of Turin. Some believe the Mandylion and the Shroud to be the same object, first kept in Edessa, later translated to Constantinople, France and Italy. Andrea Nicolotti traces back the legend of the Edessean image in history and art, focusing especially on elements that could prove its identity with the Shroud, concluding that the Mandylion and the Shroud are two distinct objects.
From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin: The Metamorphosis and Manipulation of a Legend and The Shroud of Turin: The History and Legends of the World's Most Famous Relic
The Shroud of Turin: The History and Legends of the World's Most Famous RelicFrom the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin: The Metamorphosis and Manipulation of a Legend

  • Title

    From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin: The Metamorphosis and Manipulation of a Legend

  • Author

    Andrea Nicolotti

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    September 2014

  • Weight

    477g

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004269194

  • ISBN-10

    9004269193

  • Eden Code

    4708906

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