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The Veronica (or Sudarium)
 
The Veronica
The "true image" (vera + icon) of Jesus' face, from a cloth used to wipe his face during his march to crucifixion.
 
Bibliography
 
Clark, Anne L.  "Venerating the Veronica: Varieties of Passion Piety in the Later Middle Ages."  Material Religion 3:2 (2007) 164-89.
 
Hamburger, Jeffrey F.  "Vision and the Veronica."  In The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (New York: Zone, 1998) 316-82.
 
Kuryluk, Ewa.  Veronica and Her Cloth: History, Symbolism and Structure of a "True" Image.   Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
 
Lewis, Flora.  "The Veronica: Image, Legend and Viewer."  In England in the Thirteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1984 Harlaxton Symposium (ed. W. M. Ormrod; Dover, New Hampshire: Boydell, 1986) 100-106.
 
Morello, Giovanni.  "Rome's Veronica."  In Rome: The Pilgrim's Dream (ed. Gloria Fossi, Claudio Strianati and Jacques Le Goff; Florence: Giunti BNL Edizioni, 1998) 134-41.
 
Nicolotti, Andrea.  From the Mandylion of Edessa to the Shroud of Turin: The Metamorphosis and Manipulation of a Legend, Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 1.  Boston: Brill, 2014.
 
Ragusa, Isa.  "Mandylion-Sudarium: The 'Translation' of a Byzantine Relic to Rome."  Arte Medievale 5:2 (1991) 97-106.
 
Skinnebach, Laura Katrine.  "'The Solace of His Image': Images and Presence in Late Medieval Devotional Practice."  In Instruments of Devotion: The Practices and Objects of Religious Piety from the Late Middle Ages to the 20th Century (ed. Henning Laugerud and Laura Katrine Skinnebach; Aarhus, Denmark/ Lancaster: Aarhus University Press/White Cross Mills, 2007) 189-207.
 
Wolf, Gerhard.  "From Mandylion to Veronica: Picturing the 'Disembodied' Face and Disseminating the True Image of Christ in the Latin West."  In The Holy Face and the Paradox of Representation (ed. Herbert Kessler and Gerhard Wolf; Villa Spelman Studies 6; Bologna: Nova Alfa, 1998) 153-79.
 
 
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