medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Paul Chandler <[log in to unmask]>
> Some suggest that the earliest surviving cross is from Herculaneum (before
AD 79): <http://www.gliscritti.it/gallery2/v/album_022/>
> The Alexamenos graffito may be from as early as the 1st c. or as late as
the
3rd: <http://www.ntresources.com/alex_graffito.htm>.
>1) an ivory panel dated ca. 420-430 now in the British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/p/panel_from_an_ivory_casket_th.aspx>
>2) a panel of the mid-5th-c. door of Santa Sabina in Rome, generally
accepted as a crucixion of Christ and the two thieves, though some have seen
orants or deliberate ambiguity <http://www.rome101.com/Christian/Sabina/>
of course, for those interested in the *True* Cross, there's
Geneviève Bautier,
“L'envoi de la relique de la Vraie Croix à Notre-Dame de Paris en 1120,”
Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes, CXXIX, 1971, pp. 387-397.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1971_num_129_2_449903
pretty good article.
is she the wife of Robert-Henri?
his daughter?
c
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