Mark Guscin is a scholar of Byzantine studies, and this Brill book is his academic study of the Byzantine textual sources on the Mandylion, the Image of Edessa, tracing its translation to Constantinople in 944 and its disappearance after the city's sack in 1204. Its strength is that it works directly from the Byzantine documentary sources rather than from later legend, published by a specialist academic press. Its limit is that it addresses the documented Byzantine history of the object's movements, not the separate and unresolved question of any relationship between the Mandylion and the Shroud of Turin, so a claim linking the two needs a source that engages that specific comparison.
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AuthorMark Guscin
PublisherBrill
Publication Year2009
URLhttps://brill.com/display/title/16878
Source Typebook
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Published by Brill as Mark Guscin's scholarly study of the Image of Edessa tradition, peer reviewed university-level scholarship. NotesAcademic study (Brill) of the Byzantine sources on the Mandylion, its translation to Constantinople (944) and disappearance (1204).
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This source names Constantinople directly: "of Edessa, tracing its translation to Constantinople in 944 and its disappearance after the city's sack in 1204."
Source The Image of EdessaMark Guscin
Edessa, Cities This source names Edessa directly: "sources on the Mandylion, the Image of Edessa, tracing its translation to Constantinople in 944 and its disappearance after the city's sack in 1204."
Source The Image of EdessaMark Guscin
Turin, Cities This source names Turin directly: "the Mandylion and the Shroud of Turin, so a claim linking the two needs a source that engages that specific comparison."
Source The Image of EdessaMark Guscin
Claims Backed By This Source (29 claims)
This source backs 29 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 9 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Artifacts & Relics, 9 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Figures, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
- Cities, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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