This is the standard scholarly reference on the Holy Robe of Trier, a diocese-commissioned collective volume bringing together named historians, art historians and manuscript scholars, among them Michael Embach, a specialist in Trier's medieval manuscripts, to document the relic's history, its veneration and its material and art-historical record across more than a thousand pages. It is the source German-language reference works cite for the robe's earliest secure documentation, its translation into the cathedral's high altar in 1196, and the 1844 pilgrimage that drew half a million visitors and produced Johannes Ronge's public break with Rome. Its strength is documentary breadth across disciplines rather than a single argument; its limit is that it was produced under the diocese's own auspices rather than by a fully independent academic press, so its treatment of the relic's authenticity is not disinterested even where its documentary history is sound. This page's record previously carried a fabricated title, author and publisher matching no real publication; it is corrected here to this real volume, verified against its citation in independent German-language reference sources and against the Diocese of Trier's own published history of the robe, both agreeing on the 1196 and 1844 dates relied on here.
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A diocese-commissioned edited academic volume bringing together named professional historians, art historians and manuscript scholars across more than a thousand pages. Ranked below a fully independent university-press monograph because it was produced under the Trier diocese's own auspices for its 1996 pilgrimage, which the atlas does not treat as disinterested on the relic's own authenticity, even though its documentary history (the 1196 translation into the high altar, the 1844 pilgrimage and Ronge's schism) is the standard scholarly reference other sources cite. NotesErich Aretz, Michael Embach, Michael Persch and Franz Ronig, eds., Der Heilige Rock zu Trier: Studien zur Geschichte und Verehrung der Tunika Christi (Trier: Paulinus-Verlag, 1995), 1048 pages, published for the diocese's 1996 Holy Robe pilgrimage. Confirmed as the standard scholarly reference cited by German-language reference works for the robe's 1196 documentation and the 1844 pilgrimage.
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AuthorErich Aretz, Michael Embach, Michael Persch, Franz Ronig (eds.)
PublisherPaulinus-Verlag, Trier
Publication Year1995
Source TypeEdited volume
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Rome, Cities This source names Rome directly: "Johannes Ronge's public break with Rome."
Trier, Cities This source names Trier directly: "reference on the Holy Robe of Trier, a diocese-commissioned collective volume bringing together named historians, art historians and manuscript scholars, among them Michael Embach, a specialist in..."
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This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Artifacts & Relics, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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