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The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic

By Nicholas Vincent

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521571286, 9780521571289
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
45 MB (47568829 bytes)
Pages
\280
Time added
2023-09-20 19:19:31

Description

This is the first attempt to investigate the background to the gift of the Holy Blood to Westminster by King Henry III in 1247. Recently the archives of Westminster Abbey have yielded important new material relating to this extraordinary event, including a letter from the patriarch of Jerusalem that describes the relic in detail. This study offers both a commentary on this newly-discovered letter, and an overview of the extraordinary history of the relics of Christ's blood, their origin, distribution, and place in popular devotion.

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