An Indulgence for the Visitor: The Public at the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris

Mirrored images: the Passion and the First Crusade in a fourteenth-century Parisian illuminated manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 352)

“…99 This was not simply for a private royal audience: the public attended and engaged with Sainte-Chapelle. 100 As Daniel Weiss has explained, the dedication of Sainte-Chapelle 'not only marked the completion of a repository worthy of the sacred relics of the Passion but also consecrated a new locus sanctus'. 101 Sainte-Chapelle communicated that 'Paris had become a new Holy Land' and the French monarchs were its guardians and protectors; in the words of Joseph Strayer and others, it also communicated the 'religion of monarchy'.…”

Die Dornenkrone für den König von Frankreich. Quellen zur translatio von Passionsreliquien aus Konstantinopel: zwei Texte aus den ,Grandes Chroniques de France‘ und eine Predigt aus der Zeit Ludwigs IX.

“…Der hohe Innenraum der neuen Kapelle ist von vollendeter Schönheit, so daß ein Besucher im Jahr 1323 sich überwältigt fühlte, "als sei er in den Himmel entrückt" (quasi raptus ad celum) 66 . und seine Mutter in den Jahren 1244-1246 an Stelle der alten Palastkapelle S. Nicolas errichten lassen, ist ein weithin sichtbares Andenken an den adventus der Passionsreliquien, ein Sinnbild des Triumphes und der Verehrung.…”

Determining the geochemical fingerprint of the lead fallout from the Notre-Dame de Paris fire: Lessons for a better discrimination of chemical signatures

“…( 2 A large range of elements were analyzed on the diverse samples collected in NDdP: the elements commonly analyzed in an urban context, such as Cd, Cu, Sb, and Pb (Le Gall et al, 2018;Smith et al, 2019), as well as elements, such as Ag, Sn and Bi, which can be associated with Pb in historical monuments (Sylvilay et al, 2015;L'Héritier et al, 2016;Comite et al, 2019). In addition, to document the signature of Pb used during the first stages of NDdP building, the Pb stable isotope ratio was also measured on "construction" Pb samples from Sainte-Chapelle and Chartres Cathedral, monuments contemporaneous to NDdP whose roofs have already burnt down (Shelby, 1981;Cohen, 2008).…”