As I’ve suggested elsewhere, I think the Shroud image was produced by a craftsman commissioned to provide some visible ‘evidence’ that the cloth displayed before the congregation at the conclusion of the Easter ‘Quem Quaeritis’ ceremony resembled one that might really have covered the body of Jesus. There was, I think, no claim at its […]

In his “List of Evidences of the Turin Shroud”, Giulio Fanti and his co-authors include: “B13) The body image has the normal tones of light and dark reversed with respect to a photograph, such that body parts nearer to the cloth are darker.” At first sight this may seem reasonable, and explains the remarkable appearance […]

The Medieval Shroud 2 begins with a discussion about pareidolia which I think has been widely misunderstood, entirely due to my own extension of the meaning of the word further into general perception than was popularly warranted, and insufficient explanation of what I had extended it to mean. Let me clarify. Pareidolia is usually defined […]

“Rigorous about the evidence, humble about the conclusions.” The relative success of The Medieval Shroud and The Medieval Shroud 2 and 3 on academia.edu has resulted in this spin-off, as a ‘place-holder’ for further research.