Beinecke Fellow Glenn Peers presents, “The Mandylion’s Marital and Martial Message Machines.” Byzantine precursor to the Veronica, the Mandylion was a self-portrait believed to be made by Jesus and sent to Abgar, king of Edessa (now Urfa in southeastern Turkey), with the apostle Thaddaeus. By the tenth century, the focus of this talk, the Mandylion was a message of the media dominance of representation under the new Christian dispensation. Wedding veil, battle mask, weapon of mass destruction, and?king maker, it was these things and more as the material, figural media of earthly power and of union with the divine.

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The Clark

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The Clark

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