> The publisher is Peter Lang and the date is August 2000. It is
described on
> www.amazon.com. Type in Kathryn Wildgen and up pop the books I've done.
Click on
> "Saint Judas..." and there you have it.
I'll recomended it to the University library.
> I believe that putting a halo on Judas is rare in the Middle Ages but
common in
> later periods although the halo is usually black or defective in some way
> indicating what should have been. This figures heavily in my book whose
title is
> precisely what "should have been."
Nevertheless, there are some intriguing examples of Judas at the Last
Supper (and even at the Betrayal) wearing a nimbus identical to the rest of
the Apostles. Have you consulted Peter Dinzelbacher's book on Judas? I have
not yet but think he discuss this topic at some lenght.
> By the way, I was in Sanguesa in May but unless I had been able to climb
up and
> do a tracing or rubbing of the lettering on Judas' chest, I still couldn't
> decipher the letters. Why don't you do it!?
>
Not this summer, but I have to go to Navarre to take some photographs.
Unfortunately, a bad climber too :-)
Carlos
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