Ampullae and Badges: Pilgrim Paraphernalia in Late Medieval England.

Author / Editor
McKinley, Kathryn.

Title
Ampullae and Badges: Pilgrim Paraphernalia in Late Medieval England.

Published
Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 107-21.

Description
Describes (with illustrations) the "material remainders of late medieval English practices of pilgrimage," discussing them "in the context of Chaucer's and Langland's portraits of pilgrim attire," and commenting on relations between extant badges and flasks and the literary descriptions in CT and "Piers Plowman," satirical and otherwise.

Alternative Title
Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations