Jan S. Jaworski University of Warsaw, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.18 American historian of Italian descent (his father emigrated from Sicily at the age of 16). He studied history at Ignatius Loyola University in Chicago, where he obtained his doctorate. He worked as a history teacher successively at Loyola College in Montreal, Rosary Read more…
Wojciech Kucewicz AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.2.4 A separate problem that intrigues researchers is the age of the Shroud. Its documented history is known from 1356, when the crusader Geoffrey de Charny gave it to the canons in Read more…
Marcin Grala Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.8 Determining when exactly the Shroud became the property of the Dukes of Savoy and Piedmont poses difficulties. Margaret de Charny, the previous possessor of the relics, had been seeking to transfer the linen into the right hands since the Read more…
Marcin Grala Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.7 Ian Wilson called the period from the sacking of Constantinople by participants in the Fourth Crusade till the mid-14th century the missing years. Attempts to clarify the fate of the relic hitherto venerated in the Byzantine capital (→The Shroud Read more…
Tomasz Graff Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.6 There are many ideas in the scholarly literature explaining what happened to the Shroud after the armies of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204 and transported it to Athens. Some of this conjecture, based on sources from the Read more…
Marcin Grala Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.I.5 The Shroud of Turin probably has ancient origins, but it is very difficult for historians to reconstruct its fate over so many years. The best documented period of the history of the linen, which is now kept in Turin, Read more…