From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin : the metamorphosis and manipulation of a legend / by Andrea Nicolotti ; edited by Sarah Blick and Laura D. Gelfand
Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Chapter 1; Introduction; Chapter 2; Origins and Traditions; King Abgar and the Origins of the Legend; The Apparition of the Image in Edessa; The Development of Traditions about the Image; The Siege of Edessa; A Later Genesis?; An Older Genesis?; Silence in Syria and Traditions in Armenia; The Iconoclastic Era; Chapter 3; Shifting Perspectives?; Acts of Thaddaeus; The Term tetrádiplon and the Reliquary of the Image; The Question of the Folds; The Letter of the Three Patriarchs and Jesus' Height; Chapter 4
The Translation of the Image of EdessaGregory Referendarius and the Translation of the Image; The Narratio de imagine Edessena; The Keramion; The Edessean Cult of the Image; The Synaxarium; The Liturgical Odes; Chapter 5; The Mandylion in Constantinople; The Name "Mandylion"; Persistence of Converging and Different Traditions; An Elusive Vision; The Preservation of the Mandylion in Byzantium; The Revolt of the Palace; Robert de Clari; Latin Sermon; Chapter 6; An Overview of Iconography; The Holy Face of Lucca; Orderic Vitalis; Iconography of the Mandylion; Flowers or Holes?
Miniatures of the MandylionThe Georgian Icon of Ancha; The Madrid's Skylitzes; A Russian Icon; Byzantine Coins; Two Copies of the Mandylion of Edessa; Chapter 7; The End; The Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and the Disappearance of the Mandylion; Conclusions; Index of Names
Summary
Andrea Nicolotti reconstructs the history and iconography of an ancient image of Christ, the acheiropoieton (""not made by human hands"") Mandylion of Edessa. He refutes the theory that the Mandylion still exists and is known as the Shroud of Turin
