Eivor Andersen Oftestad: The Lateran Church in Rome and the Ark of the Covenant: Housing the Holy Relics of Jerusalem

An obscure twelfth-century document claiming that the main altar of the Lateran basilica in Rome has the ancient Ark of the Covenant hidden within - does that not sound more like the plot of a Hollywood spectacular than the topic of a scholarly treatise? Yet Eivor Andersen Oftestad shows how much we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephan Borgehammar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Novus 2020-01-01
Series:Collegium Medievale
Online Access:http://ojs.novus.no/index.php/CM/article/view/1755