One further item of bibliography you may find interesting, MS, s. Skotnes, is Pa
trick Geary's _Furta_Sacra_, which is about trade in and theft of relics. As fo
r connections between the Eucharist and the presence of relics, a number of med
ievql legal
and litrugc (sorry, liturgical) documents make it clear that the Eucharist coul
d not (or better, should not) be confected except on an altar cntaining reilcs.
The book by Hermann-Mascard mentioned in an earlier post should help on this to
pic. (Apologie
s for my typing, but it's been a long day.) Stephen Allen, University of Notre
Dame, [log in to unmask]
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