The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster Blood Relic
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Book Details
Author(s)
Nicholas Vincent
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0521026601
ISBN-13
9780521026604
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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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.
