The Amassing of Relics | The Age of Cathedrals with R. Howard Bloch
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In 1237–1239, cash-strapped Latin Constantinople offered the Crown of Thorns for sale; Louis IX, then 23, and Blanche of Castile paid £135,000 to keep it out of Venetian or “pagan” hands and installed it as the center...