IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1729: Saints, Pilgrims, Badges, and Souvenirs Crossing Borders
Thursday 7 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden |
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| Organiser: | Annemarieke Willemsen, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden |
| Moderator/Chair: | Annemarieke Willemsen, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden |
| Paper 1729-a | Pinning Down St George: Characterising the Nature of (So-Called) 'Pilgrim Badges' of St George Recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts, Daily Life, Religious Life |
| Paper 1729-b | The Badges of Becket in Canterbury and Beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts, Daily Life, Religious Life |
| Paper 1729-c | Pilgrims, Badges, and Miracles of St Kunera at Rhenen, the Netherlands (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts, Daily Life, Religious Life |
| Abstract | In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in individual aspects of medieval pilgrimage: in itineraries and lodgings, in female pilgrims, and especially in tertiary relics, pilgrim badges and other souvenirs that were collected at shrines and taken home. These powerful, protective objects often had a significant afterlife, worn as identity markers, placed in books, tombs, and buildings, and sometimes even performing miracles themselves. Databases of pilgrim badges show how they spread all over the world, ending up far from their shrines of origin, and at the same time were subject to very local, temporal and personal patronage, taste and fashion. |