ArmourAndCastings - m64 "Pilgrimess" medieval carnival badge
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m64 "Pilgrimess" medieval carnival badge

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The badge shows a female vulva in a pilgrim's hat, with a rosary and a staff in her hands. The top of the staff is in the shape of a phallus. "Erotic" badges, which may have been sold alongside pilgrim badges and are now being dug up side by side, often mock pilgrims. It may be that the badges mock exactly the male and female pilgrims who went in search of sexual adventures under the guise of piety. And this is not some modern speculation. In the late fourteenth century, Geoffrey Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales described the temptations for women to go to the holy places through the mouth of a deluded husband.
It is also worth remembering that in the Middle Ages the ancient notion that the sight of a woman's genitals could drive away any enemy, visible or invisible, lived on. The life-giving organs brought good luck and drove away danger, disease and death. The phallus or vulva was not only associated with the "sinful" pleasures of sex, but also with procreation, vitality, fertility and prosperity. Not only did they arouse desire, but they also made people laugh, and the laughter, the play, the burlesque images of an upside-down world found a place on the walls of temples for a long time, despite the rigorists' displeasure. Indecent badges may contradict stereotypes of medieval prudery and fears of 'bodily sinfulness'. Meanwhile, images with explicit sexual connotations can be found even in churches. Netherlands, 1400-1450. Based on the book "Sieraad en devotie in middeleews vlaandreen" by Jos Kolderweij.
Brass cast. Size 25x40 mm.

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