The Shroud of Turin

Andrea Nicolotti is Professor of History of Christianity and the Churches at the University of Turin.Jeffrey M. Hunt is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Baylor University. R. A. Smith is Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University.

Introduction to the English Edition Genealogical Stemma 1 One The Birth and Development of a Cult 1.1 The Fate of Jesus' Burial Cloths 1.2 Medieval Shrouds and Sudariums 2 The Shroud of Lirey-Chamb? (R)ry-Turin 2.1 Origins 2.2 Passage of the Shroud's Ownership 3 The Shroud in Piedmont 3.1 The Early Days of the Shroud in Turin 3.2 Between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 4 The Shroud and Modernity 4.1 Science and History 4.2 The Fragility of the Hard Sciences 4.3 Between Monarchy and Republic 4.4 The Postconciliar Period 5 The Creation of a Myth 5.1 A Rebirth 5.2 The Invention of a Story 5.3 The Era of Radiocarbon 5.4 A Revival in the Third Millennium

This book constitutes the very best analysis of the history of the Shroud of Turin and of other competing shrouds, from antiquity to the present day. Relying on a complete reexamination of the documented evidence, this work is a masterpiece in its use of the methods of historical criticism. It is an antidote to the devotional and pseudoscientific literature put in circulation by those who believe in the authenticity of the relic. -- Fr. Pier Angelo Gramaglia, Professor Emeritus of Patrology, Theological University of Northern Italy Andrea Nicolotti's book is a work in which the author succeeds with masterful measure and proficiency in the far from simple task of combining questions of the past with the reality of the present. In his informed use of investigative tools drawn from diverse disciplines and fields, the author deploys a refined research technique and an intellectual sensibility, in so doing revealing a rare breadth of approach. -- Pier Giorgio Zunino, Member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin