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> 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."
Reply: No, I haven't seen the book you mention, but I mention in my book that
the Middle Ages, despite prevalent anti-semitism, were considerably kinder to
Judas than later centuries. My book is not about Judas per se but rather the
capital of his suicide at Autun, whose iconography is ambiguous and possibly
very postive or, in today's parlance, non-judgmental.
Thanks for your interest.
Kathryn
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 :-)
Reply: you wouldn't have to climb very far!! Buen viaje (hope my Spanish doesn't
make you cringe).
Carlos
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