Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds

by Ann Marie Rasmussen

Mass-produced of tin-lead alloys and cheap to make and purchase, medieval badges were brooch-like objects displaying familiar images. Circulating widely throughout Europe in the High and late Middle Ages, badges were usually small, around four-by-four centimeters, though examples as tiny as two centimeters and a few as large as ten centimeters have been found. About 75 percent of surviving badges are closely associated with specific charismatic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253205
• ISBN13: 9780812253207
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"