Shameless and Naked Images: Obscene Badges as Parodies of Popular Devotion

Author / Editor
Koldeweij, Jos.

Title
Shameless and Naked Images: Obscene Badges as Parodies of Popular Devotion

Published
Sarah Blick and Rita Tekippe, eds. Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles. 2 vols. (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2005), volume 1, pp. 493-510.

Series
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, no. 104.

Description
Koldeweij comments on pilgrim badges and related materials mentioned in CT and illustrated in the Ellesmere manuscript. The commentary introduces a discussion of obscene badges (ca. 1350-ca. 1450) intended to mock pilgrimage.

Alternative Title
Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales - General.