Dear George
have nothing near-by but I think that Simon Keynes in an early 1990's
article has mention of and references to the variety of things which
could end up in royal treasuries. In part it is the continual problem of
early medievalists not to back-track later more specific definitions of
offices onto those described in the same terms in their period. But
important things kept in the (very frequently travelling) royal household
in anglo-saxon England were kept in the same place (box, room?) and so
you get money, precious objects, charters, and relics (which of course
can be used for money if necessary, are themselves encased in precious
objects and might well help vouchsafe property in other contexts).
Athelstan's mid-tenth century relic collection has been discussed in
connection with this. (there is much bibliography on this in a 1996
dissertation at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies,
focussing on the relics of St Petroc (yes the one recently reinstalled at
Bodmin in Cornwall), by Karen Jankulak.) Loomis focussed on aspects of
this in the 1950's but more recent (or detailed) bibliography escapes me
at the moment.
Georges Whalen
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
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