Byzantine Coins Influenced by the Shroud of Christ: Influenced by the Shroud of Christ

ISBN-13: 9789814877886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 354 str.

Giulio Fanti

Opis

This is the first book in the world that relates the different images of Christ on Byzantine coins with the image of Jesus Christ on the Shroud, the most important relic of Christianity even if the effigy of Christ is the most researched and collected by numismatists.

Spis treści

1. Byzantine Coinage 2. The Shroud of Christ 3. Images of Christ in the Byzantine Age 4. Details of Christ’s Face on Coins 5. Christ in the World’s Medieval Coins 6. Probabilistic Analysis Applied to a Coin 7. Quantitative Analysis and Third-Class Relics 8. The Face of Christ on Coins: Aesthetic Opinion and Experiments 9. Latest Findings

O autorze

Giulio Fanti is associate professor of mechanical and thermal measurements at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua, Italy. Since 1997 he has directed his interest to the Shroud, especially with reference to the still scientifically inexplicable body image impressed on it. Prof. Fanti was responsible for university research projects concerning the most important relic of Christianity and has headed for more than 15 years the Shroud Science Group, consisting of more than 100 dedicated scientists. He has published more than 200 scientific articles in international journals and has authored 10 books and over 80 scientific articles on the Shroud.