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...