Dear Claire,
thanks for your introduction and your literature references - especially the one about St.Quentin. I noticed that
my introduction was too short, because I am also very interested in relics and their distribution. Especially in
two of my monasteries, Essen and Quedlinburg, there is a large number of relics documented for the early
middle ages. I m interested in the question how these relics were collected and which political and personal
contacts made this possible, why these saints were chosen and so on. In the moment I search information
about the distribution of the patrocinium and the relics of Quintinus in the early middle ages. Has anybody
some references?
For Scott it might me interesting, that we have a group of art historians working on late medieval art of
Cologne which might help with questions about objects from churches in Cologne or about special literature.
We visited the textil restauration at the cathedral in Aix-la-Chapelle. They are just restauring their reliquaries of
the 11.000 virgins and so we could see the skulls, sewed into old medieval clothes and decorated with little
flowers.
Greetings,
Katrinette Bodarw‚
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