medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> Blaise (d. ca. 316, supposedly).
> In 1014 Bl. Meinwerk of Paderborn, who was in Rome that year for the
coronation of his friend Henry II, acquired a relic of B. for his diocese. In
the following year he consecrated that city's Abdinghof monastery, whose relic
collection included one of B. placed in its early twelfth-century portable
altar of Sts. Felix and Blasius, now in the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum
in Paderborn:
> http://tinyurl.com/327luc
better known in some quarters for its being the work of Roger of
Helmarshausen, a.k.a. (it is generally believed) "Theophilus Presbyter"
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9072039/Theophilus#10572.hook
http://www.enotes.com/oxford-art-encyclopedia/theophilus
http://books.google.com/books?id=xzZjo3YSLbwC&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&dq=%22roger+of+helmarshausen%22&source=web&ots=vh3AsMyO_1&sig=MsOH6Ex7-AjHzNkiZ5AJ1-znC1o
http://www.jstor.org/view/00076287/ap020175/02a00200/0
author of the most comprehensive treatise "On Diverse Arts" we have from the
m.a.
http://books.google.com/books?id=MMiLTJqvYnYC&pg=PR11&lpg=PR11&dq=%22roger+of+helmarshausen%22&source=web&ots=noSbHEFeNA&sig=Tq3C7gvzmcXOYimbvX96zmlP0CU#PPP1,M1
according to his obituary
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030528/ai_n12695942
the eminent art historian and specialist in metal work and other "minor arts,"
the last project by Peter Lasko
http://books.google.com/books?id=PwJb18lq5gkC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=%22roger+of+helmarshausen%22&source=web&ots=C9PZPRV_v2&sig=0SUeP94IUexn-iDP3cYEqtS2YaU
was to have been "a novel based on the life of the 12th- century monastic
goldsmith Roger of Helmarshausen."
unfortunately this was not completed --or at least has not been published,
that i can see.
c
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