Fraud of Turin

What more is there to add about the Shroud of Turin? The linen cloth with the faint image of the crucified Jesus in the position of burial is perhaps more popular today than at any other time. But the Shroud unlocks for us another world, a forgotten world. THE FRAUD OF TURIN, written by Catholic writer James Day, objectively reviews the evidence for a medieval creation, but it is written for religious believers, art lovers, and history buffs showing just how all consuming the Passion of Jesus Christ was to the medieval mind. What emerges is an epic journey with crusaders to Jerusalem's Holy Sepulcher, into Arthurian lore and the search for the Holy Grail, and across the Black Sea into mysterious Constantinople. James Day boldly sets out to find the truth of the world's most famous religious artifact.

James Day has a BA in Latin from John Carroll University and an MFA from Loyola Marymount's School of Film and Television.

Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Author’ s Note; Timeline, 1353-1460; Foreword: “ The Other Side of the Shroud” by Jean de Joinville Introduction; From Flax to Tomb; Positives and Negatives; Modern Times; Blockprint; Jean de Joinville in Alsace; The Collapse of a Dream; Family Ties; A Drama Unfolds; Innocent III and the Holy Face; The Man of Sorrows; The Portable Altar of Geoffroi de Charny; A Place of Pilgrimage; The Antipope(s); Archways and Peacocks; The Shroud and the Grail; The Charnys and Passion Art; The Divine Light; Appendix A: The d’ Arcis