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HI Cecilia

I am on holidays too (Sacred Music Colloquium, 2014!) but had to weigh in briefly.  You may wish to look into the use of an antimensium (there are some alternate spellings).  It is a sort of corporal (cloth) that had the relics inside of it.  It was used in the Greek church from about the 8th century.

These may not have been used in the Crusades, but may apply to your question.

Jaye


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Usually simple chalices of low-grade pewter with a lot of lead in the alloy (though you do get precious metal ones). It's assumed that they are there as replicas (in the same way, priests are indicated by the carving of a chalice on the tomb slab or coffin lid)

Maddy

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Actually, I've wondered about the metal of chalices myself. Yes, materials were regulated-- this is why glass chalices go out of use so early. But what about the pewter (or lead? can't remember exactly at the moment) chalices and patens found in some ecclesiastical graves? Were these not actually usable?
Genevra
 
 
 
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Synods usually said silver, but other metals were permitted. Wood was not. Check Honorius III's decretal Sane, in the Gregorian Decretals in the title On the celebration of masses in Book III. There are related texts in the Decretum in De consecratione D. 1 near the end.
Tom Izbicki
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