New Book Publication by Ann Marie Rasmussen

We are pleased to announce this month’s publication of Ann Marie Rasmussen’s book Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). Interdisciplinary in approach, and 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.

Drawing on evidence from England, France, the Low Countries, Germany, and Scandinavia, this book provides information about the manufacture, preservation, and scholarly study of these artifacts. From chapters exploring badges and pilgrimage, to the complexities of the political use of badges, to the ways the visual meaning-making strategies of badges were especially well-suited to the unique features of medieval cities, this book offers an expansive introduction of these medieval objects for a wide readership and includes fictional, research-informed scenarios imagining how medieval people might have interacted with religious and profane badges.

The book is available through University of Pennsylvania Press for those within North America. For those outside of North America, the book is available through Combined Academic Publishers.