The 7thC Theuderic reliquary casket, from the Abbey of St. Maurice, Switzerland (image via http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2014/04/treasures-of-st-maurice-abbey-at-louvre.html?m=1 …)pic.twitter.com/E43ZCcP2AK
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Is the Viking hostage on 8th/9thC Inchmarnock stone carrying a portable reliquary...? http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_306131_en.pdf …pic.twitter.com/PM3nSuA8A3
looks more like a handbag :-)
Seen at @museecluny it was the fashion of the time and came in many sizes for Relicistaspic.twitter.com/LHRpYGsLAU
Absolutely! All the cool people had handbag reliquaries in the 8thC/9thC ;)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/710212947247828992 …
I wonder what was the missing piece http://laclefdesrunes.centerblog.net/6551998-Le-coffret-de-Mortain- … Likely Northumbrianpic.twitter.com/UzXAjgkFO2
@caitlinrgreen OK, I give up. Why does anyone need a reliquary to be portable?
@virginicus This is quite good on the topic and mentions this reliquary---part of early med devotion etc :) http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_306131_en.pdf … p.156ff
@caitlinrgreen Loved the line, "a world that ignored or subverted learned attempts to impose meaning and order on it." That's my life!
@caitlinrgreen You might like this: Man with lion head Armagh Ireland pre 5th c AD http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.ie/2015/02/radegost-welcome-guest.html …pic.twitter.com/XvdZQS8P8G
@caitlinrgreen looks like a handbag
@caitlinrgreen A Michael Kors avant la lettre ?
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