Silver saints : prayers and badges in late medieval books / Hanneke van Asperen.

• Late medieval books served as treasure chests for all kinds of religious keepsakes, notably small metal badges. Devotees sewed these religious badges and pilgrimage souvenirs to the parchment of their treasured devotional books and manuscript illuminators depicted silver and gilt badges in the margins as if they are sewn to the pages. Medieval manuscripts are often admired for their aesthetic qualities, but many of them also served a practical use as instruments for the physical and mental wellbeing of the owners and their families. Manuscripts and incunabula containing metal badges illustrate how the owners used their books, which texts they favored, but also who collected badges and why. The depicted badges that only appear in richly illuminated and expensive manuscripts expand the knowledge of these metal objects that have been passed down in small numbers only. The painted motifs that have a more decorative and structuring role in the book fulfilled different functions than the original badges. 'Silver Saints' discusses the religious life of lay people in the late Middle Ages and the meaning of badges in books, both the painted motifs in beautifully decorated manuscripts and many traces of original badges. 

Ämnesord

Bokmåleri  (sao)

Medaljer  (sao)

Medeltiden  (sao)

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.  (LCSH)

Prayer books.  (LCSH)

Religious medals  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Pilgrim badges  -- Europe -- History. (LCSH)

Prayer books.  (fast)

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.  (fast)

Pilgrim badges.  (fast)

Religious medals.  (fast)

Illumination of books and manuscripts  (LCSH)

Medals  (LCSH)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Europe.  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ieb.3 Bokmåleri: medeltiden

Klassifikation

CJ5793.R34 (LCC)

Z (ämneskategori)

BV (ämneskategori)

N (ämneskategori)

737/.2240902 (DDC)

Ieb.3 (kssb/8)