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Between Erudition and Faith: Jean-Jacques Chifflet’s Tract on the Shroud of Besançon (1624)

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dc.creatorvon Wyss-Giacosa, Paola
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-17T17:11:41Z
dc.date.available2023-05-17T17:11:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe shroud of Besançon, a large cloth considered being a precious relic, an “imprint” left by Christ’s body on his burial linen, knew a period of intense veneration and public debate from the early 16th century to the end of the 18th century. With the publication of De linteis sepulchralibus Christi servatoris crisis historica (Antwerp, 1624), a treatise that was as erudite as it was intellectually and conceptually biased, the Bisontine author Jean-Jacques Chifflet significantly contributed to his local shroud’s perception and reception. A noteworthy selection of visual material, among it the very first reproduction of the shroud of Besançon in a print medium, was an important part of the book’s argument. The present article offers a close reading of parts of Chifflet’s treatise, with a particular attention given to the author’s targeted use of engravings as illustrationes (images meant to, quite literally, illuminate the text, its meaning and intention), thus looking at this representation of a local relic as a part and as a product of a cultural practice and of shared notions.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.4:2019.1.4
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19490
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/163
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20681
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
dc.subjectEruditionen
dc.subjectFaithen
dc.subjectTracten
dc.subjectShrouden
dc.subjectBesançonen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.personJean-Jacques Chifflet
dc.titleBetween Erudition and Faith: Jean-Jacques Chifflet’s Tract on the Shroud of Besançon (1624)en
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-17T19:29:45
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/163
local.source.epage68
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleUnderstanding Jesus in the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Across Text and Other Media
local.source.spage47
local.source.volume5
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118675869
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3166217

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