Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds

Sumptuously illustrated, Medieval Badges offers an expansive introduction of these medieval objects for a wide readership

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 pe...