Kunera, late medieval badges and ampullae
Badges and ampullae surface regularly in riverfront deposits and old city centers. These little known objects are the material witnesses to the rich and fascinating visual world of the late Middle Ages. Often only unique copies or – in rare instances – some duplicates of the same mould were passed down, even though the objects were mass-produced at the time.
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New publication - Geleefd Geloof [Lived Faith]
Recently Walburg Pers published a book on medieval Frisia, a region in the Low Countries comprising the current provinces of Groningen and Friesland. For this book, Jos Koldeweij wrote about pilgrims’ badges and ampullae.
New publication Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds
Interdisciplinary in approach, and sumptuously illustrated with more than 115 color and black-and-white images, Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds introduces badges in all their variety and uses.
Silver Saints - new publication
The new book 'Silver Saints' investigates badges in medieval manuscripts. in this new publication Hanneke van Asperen studies both badges that were sewn to the pages by book owners and marginal decoration. In trompe l'oeil depictions illuminators painted badges as if they are arranged on the page.