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Jesus' Crown of Thorns has become one of the most ubiquitous features of Christian religious art, but was the crown of history anything like the crown of popular medieval art and piety? The image that springs to mind is that of a bloodied, beaten Jesus, wearing a cruelly fashioned, woven…
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There are some images that are fixed in our minds when we are very young and remain there all our lives. Jesus’ Crown of Thorns is a good example: the spikey branches sinuously entwined which were brutally forced down onto his head, to be left there as he died on the cross. This book shows how the Gospels describe something rather different and that the familiar image in fact developed much later.
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