medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I'm afraid that I come late to this discussion, but you might take a
look at the two portable altars so far posted in my archive:
http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/Altars.html
row 1 no. 5 (Arnulf Ciborium, Carolingian) and row 2 no. 1 (Gertrudis
Altar, Ottonian)
Looking just now for the photos that the Cleveland Museum of Art has
posted showing the relics in the altar of Gertrude, I found instead this
splendid short video that shows them much better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wGXbnzaCsc
None of the portable altars that I have seen had the relic in the stone
itself, though of course those I have not seen might be different. All
have separate chambers for the relics, normally beneath the stone, which
is itself flat on both sides. I have indeed proposed that a flat
rectangular Carolingian crystal might have originally served as an altar
stone: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/RouenBaptism.html
I seem to remember reading that after "my" early period it was possible
to use the consecrated host as the relic required for an altar. Does
this sound right to you later medievalists?
Genevra
home page: http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com
archive indices: http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/archive-1.html
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