>To: "Bodarwe" <"Bodarwe"@mailbase.ac.uk>
>From: "Aline G. Hornaday" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: St. Quentin
>
>Dear Katrinette,
>
>You asked about dedications & relics of St. Quentin. You may already know
all this, but an oratory of St. Quentin at Quaregnon in Belgium (now I
believe a suburb of Mons) was traditionally supposed to have been built by
the seventh century saints Waldetrude, patron of Hainaut, and Ghislain.
Waldetrude's sister, St. Aldegunde, founded the double monastery of
Maubeuge, where the church for the masculine community was dedicated to St.
Quentin. Alain Dierkens mentions the cult of St. Quentin at the monastery of
Fosses in his book Abbayes et Chapitres entre Sambre et Meuse (VIIe-XIe
siecles) (Sigmaringen, 1985).
I am currently researching the early medieval spread of the cults of
Waldetrude, Aldegunde, and Sts. Aye, Hidulf, Vincent of Soignies,
Madelberta, Landeric and Dentelin (the "Maubeuge Cycle" group of saints; see
Anne-Marie Helvetius, Abbayes, Eveques et Laiques: Une politique du pouvoir
en Hainaut au moyen Age (VIIe-XIe siecle) (Brussels, 1992)). The cult of
Dentelin, and his relics, reached the Rhineland in the tenth century (?);
dedications to Aldegunde were made there in the eleventh century (?). I am
especially interested in the spread of the cults of Sts. Aye and Dentelin
into the Rhineland, where Irmgarde of Aspel built a church dedicated to
Dentelin in the 11th century. Any references you can give me from Essen and
Quedlinburg - or elsewhere - would be much appreciated. Thank you and greetings.
>
>Aline Hornaday
>[log in to unmask]
>At 10:24 AM 1/16/98, you wrote:
>>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‚
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>
>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|