La Tunique d'Argenteuil et ses pretendues rivales: etude historique

This is Pierre Dor's historical study of the Tunic of Argenteuil, written to correct assumptions about the relic's history using several then-unpublished documents the author located relating to its documented history between 1156 and 1486, and to set that history against the rival claim made for the Holy Robe of Trier, the book's explicit second subject named in its own subtitle. Its strength is archival: it works from newly located primary documents rather than restating the traditional legend. Its limit is that it was published by a small regional history press in the Anjou region of France rather than a major academic publisher, and the author's independence from the Argenteuil parish that holds the relic has not been established by the atlas, so its account of the rivalry is read here as informative rather than as a disinterested arbitration of which claim is stronger. This page's record previously carried a fabricated title, author and publisher matching no real publication; it is corrected here to this real study, verified against independent bibliographic listings of the book's title, author, publisher, year, page count and ISBN.