The relative success of The Medieval Shroud and The Medieval Shroud 2 and 3 on academia.org has resulted in this spin-off, as a ‘place-holder’ for further research.
[After posting this article, Tom McAvoy was kind enough to respond, twice. His comments are included at the end, [and mine!] so please make sure you read the whole thing to get the full balance of opinion on the subject.] In a recent paper in Applied Optics,1 Thomas McAvoy has concluded that the intensity of […]
Make a piece of Shroud-like textile – on a warp-weighted loom. Let’s forget about the image, which may or may not be miraculous, and focus on the cloth, which is surely mostly thought of as an entirely man-made product. It’s a fine, linen, 3/1 chevron twill, and all the textile experts to study it have […]
“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see.So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII It is Easter weekend. Yesterday we commemorated the death of a man called Jesus two thousand years ago, his deposition in a cave tomb, and his envelopment in a cloth of fine […]
I have been inspired to revisit the question of pollen on the Shroud of Turin by the publication of two interesting papers, analysing some pollen assemblages of First Century Jerusalem and Medieval Europe respectively. 1 The title of this article relates to the location of these assemblies, a town drain running roughly from the Temple […]
Muddlehead: I wish my master was dead!Eyebald: Then why not do something about it?Muddlehead: I wouldn’t mind.Eyebald: Tell me how.Muddlehead: You couldn’t keep it secret.Eyebald: My lips are zipped.Muddlehead: I know you too well.Eyebald: No, honestly, trust me.Muddlehead: Only as far as I can throw you.Eyebald: All right, listen. You know my master hates yours?Muddlehead: […]
The previous two posts have been a more or less blow by blow account of the ‘final’ Conference of the original Shroud of Turin Research Project team, over the weekend of 9-11 October 1981, tapes of which have been made available to us by the kind and painstaking work of Barrie Schwortz and the Shroud […]
[n.b.. All the recordings can be found at shroud.com (https://www.shroud.com/81conf.htm), the essential compendium of everything related to the Shroud, founded and maintained by Barrie Schwortz since before the birth of Google!] SUNDAY MORNING Sunday began with an explanation of the X-ray fluorescence spectra, by Larry Schwalbe. His diagrams seem to be those published in Morris, […]
As I mentioned briefly in my last post, we have been extremely fortunate recently in the publication of nine hours of tape-recordings of the ‘Final’ conference of the STuRP team, kept for 40 years by Rudy Dichtl, and presented to STERA (the Shroud of Turin Education and Research Association) for digitisation and upload. All the […]
Since I wrote this, I have been grateful for some comments from Bill Meacham, who was mentioned in Dale’s interview, and, as a consequence, by myself below. Unfortunately they arrived too late to be posted in the discussion section – at the time WordPress closed comments after three days – so I have incorporated them […]
…the good is oft interred with their bones. (Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II) On 16 November 1955, eight-year-old Janice May was found, raped and beaten, on a railway line in her hometown of Canton, Illinois. She died an hour later. After two days a taxi driver, Lloyd Miller, was arrested and subsequently tried, found […]