Further to Pippin's reading suggestions and the recent issue of
Gesta devoted to body-part relics, you might try
:- Ernst Gunther Grimme, Goldschmiedekunst im Mittelalter: Form und
Bedeutung des Reliquiars von 800 bis 1500 (Cologne, 1972)
- Marie-Madeleine Gauthier, Routes de la Foi: reliques et reliquaires
de Jerusalem a Compostelle (Paris, 1983); there has also been an
English translation
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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