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M26 "Good harvest" medieval carnival badge

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Indecent badge, Netherlands, 1400-1450. It depicts a woman with a garden wheelbarrow in which she carries a crop of three phalluses. At the same time she walks on a giant phallus on legs instead of the road, which may hint at the woman's penchant for lust. Probably had a metaphorical, ironic meaning.

Indecent badges may contradict stereotypes of medieval prudishness and fear of "bodily sinfulness". Meanwhile, images with explicit sexual connotations are found even in churches. And badges with erotic-satirical subjects were invariably popular. One hypothesis regarding these subjects is that the images of phalluses and vulvas were needed to protect buildings from evil spirits, the evil eye and other dangers. They were not worshipped, but seen as amulets, symbols capable of bringing good fortune and prosperity. According to many testimonies, in the Middle Ages the ancient notion that the phallus drives away evil and attracts good luck continued to live (hence, for example, the showing of a fig or middle finger as a guarding gesture in superstitions). In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the genitals were regularly depicted on small metal badges - badges that archaeologists find by the hundreds in the Netherlands, Northern France, and England.
Based on the book "Sieraad en devotie in middeleews vlaandreen" by Jos Kolderweij.
Brass cast. Size 57 x 50 mm.

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