The subject of the dating of the Shroud--and thus it's authenticity--comes up in the book "Tsar of the Slavs" by Russian academician Anatoly Fomenko, but in a quite unexpected way.

In Chapter 1, he closely examines the hypothesis that Jesus was born in what we call the year 1152 AD, and was crucified in what we call the year 1185 AD. He takes a very, very close look at the work done on dating the Shroud and finds that the original results were consistent with 1185 AD. These results, however, were later rejected and obfuscated, presumably by those who were looking for other dates to confirm other hypotheses.

This all sounds quite ridiculous until you examine the 5 other independent lines of strong evidence he exhibits supporting the 1152-1185 AD dates. For those familiar, this ties in with Sylvie Ivanowa's presentations indicating that the "Middle Ages" were in fact just a few centuries after the birth of Christ.