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.
A preliminary experiment One of the difficulties in determining the minimum density of red ochre that might be needed to make a noticeable difference to a colourless cloth is the experimental procedure from which to measure it. Morris, Schwalbe and London (‘X-Ray Fluorescence Investigation of the Shroud of Turin,’ X-Ray Spectrometry, 1980) calculated values of […]
What on earth happened – or should I say didn’t happen – on 20th August 2024? Out of a blue sky, a sudden media frenzy erupted around a previously largely unnoticed piece of research carried out by some Italian scientists two to five years previously. Entering “Shroud” “Turin” and “WAXS” into the Google search bar […]
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[Digression] I first came across this maxim in the 1966 film, “A Man For All Seasons,” Robert Bolt’s brilliant historical drama about the conflict between Thomas More and Henry VIII. His refusal to sign the Oath of Supremacy, making Henry the “supreme head in earth of the church of England,” was widely recognised as a […]
Another nail in the authenticist coffin. The fourth and last lecture in a series of Zoom presentations hosted by the Oakwood Wesleyan Church in Toronto and delivered by Dale Glover is called ‘Refuting the Skeptics.’1 The first three were an introduction to the Turin Shroud, how the images were made, and the Shroud and the […]
Or rather: New Insights on Blood Evidence from the Turin Shroud, Giulio Fanti’s latest, rather wide ranging collection of brief comments into what seem to have been quite detailed investigations into the blood on the Shroud.1 I would be reluctant to comment on it at all had not Fanti referred to the “deafening silence” of […]
In a recent article in the Newsletter of the British Society for the Turin Shroud,1 Teddi Pappas reviews a lot of research into rigor mortis in unusual conditions, and investigates the much rarer phenomenon of cadaveric spasm, in which parts of the body become instantaneously rigid at the moments of death. This is controversial, poorly […]
Part Two of a discussion of Jack Markwardt’s “Antioch” hypothesis covered the years501 – 900 AD, 1 and to be honest, it takes a while before any reasonable suggestion that the Shroud might be involved emerges at all. Two cryptic mentions of an image clearly visible on a wall in Antioch, and the legend of […]
In a podcast on 22 June 2024, Jack Markwardt set out the evidence for his “Antioch” hypothesis, as regards primary sources dated from 30 – 500 AD.1 I had the honour of being a participant, and occasional commenter, but I have to confess that some of the primary sources were unfamiliar to me, and on […]