Sindonological lexicon

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Sindonological lexicon. Polish perspective and contribution, ed. K. Pilarczyk, Z. Treppa, T. Graff, Eastern and Central European Voices. Supplements  – Volume 003, series ed.: R. Mazur, M. Rosik, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Paderborn 2025, ISBN: 978-3-525-57360-0, pp. 216 with 105 col. and 11 b/w fig., 150 EU.

Description
Sindonological research conducted for over a hundred years, focusing mainly on the Shroud of Turin, but also on the Sudarion of Oviedo, the Veil of Manoppello, the Tunica of Argenteuil and the Tilma of Guadalupe. Currently, in many places around the world there are research centers that deal with this issue. Undoubtedly, the leading role i non this respect is played by the International Sindonological Center in Turin. In 2017, American, Spanish and Italian centers were joined by a Polish one – the Polish Sindonological Center based in Krakow, which is a branch of the Turin center. In it matured the idea of developing a Sindonological Lexicon, which would summarize over a century of research achievements on the Shroud of Turin and other artifacts related to it. It was developed by a team of scientists affiliated to the following universities: the Jagiellonian University (Kraków), the AGH University of Science and Technology (Kraków), the Pontifical University of John Paul II (Kraków), the University of Gdańsk and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Members of the editorial board of the lexicon include members of the Polish Sindonology Centre, and Krzysztof Pilarczyk is the coordinator of the entire project and the editor of the electronic version of the lexicon.
Contents

Chapter I

Overview and specific entries

  1. The Shroud of Jesus in the New Testament
  2. Exegetical and medical aspects of Jesus’ death and their coherence with the Shroud
  3. Jewish burial customs and the Shroud
  4. Patristic, apocryphal literature and itineraries and selected artefacts about the Shroud and images of Jesus
  5. The Shroud in Constantinople
  6. Templars and the Shroud
  7. The Shroud in the de Charny family and disputes over its authenticity
  8. The Shroud in the hands of the House of Savoy
  9. The Shroud in Turin

9.1 The Confraternity of the Holy Shroud in Turin

9.2 International Sindonological Centre in Turin

9.3 Popes before the Shroud in Turin

  1. Polish Sindonological Centre
  2. Semiotics and semiology of the Shroud
  3. The Shroud in the liturgies

12.1 The Epitaphios

  1. The Shroud as a prototype for the depiction of Jesus

13.1 The Shroud and the convention of the mandylion

13.2 The Shroud and Imago Pietatis

Chapter II

Research history on the Shroud

  1. The Shroud of Turin – physical description
  2. Physical analyses of the Shroud

2.1 Photographs of the Shroud

2.2 STURP

2.3 Hypotheses of the origin of the image on the Shroud

2.4 Determination of the age of the Shroud

  1. Chemical analyses of the Shroud
    • Blood on the Shroud
  2. Polish Sindonology
  3. Comparative analyses
    • Veil of Manoppello
    • Tilma of Guadalupe
    • Sudarium of Oviedo
    • Tunic of Argenteuil
    • The Shroud and the image from the apparitions of Saint Faustina

Chapter III

Calendar of events

Chapter IV

People & Places

Argenteuil

Chmiel Jerzy

Constantinople

Dołęga-Chodasiewicz

Edessa

Enrie Giuseppe

Fanti Giulio

Fenrych Władysław

Filas Francis

Heller John

Karol Boromeusz

Karwowski Stanisław

Ładzina Wanda

Manoppello

Oviedo

Pia Secondo

Prószyński Kazimierz

Scavone Daniel C.

Schwortz Barry

Tepeyac/Guadalupe

Waliszewski Stanisław

Ziółkowski Zenon

Chapter V

Polish sindonological bibliography

Biographical notes of the authors and members of the editorial board

Source of figures

Index of persons

Index of places

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