Conferences, Lectures & Publications

Conferences, Lectures and Publications SUPPORTED BY INSIGHT GRANT

2022 Team Members’ Talks and Lectures on Medieval Badges

"Medieval Badges: Visual Communication and Community Formation," ZEMAS (Zentrum für Mittelalterforschung), University of Bamberg, 14. November 2022, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

"Medieval Badges: Visual Communication and Community Formation," Illustration and the Arts of Memory, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective, Free University of Berlin, 9-11. November 2022, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

Presentation of Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds, Kunera Database Worskhop, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. 29. September 2022. Virtual, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

“Crowned Hearts in the Material and Literary Cultures of Northwestern Europe in the Middle Ages,” Artes amatoriae: Die Kunst der höfischen Liebe in Objekt, Kunst, Text und Musik (1180–1500), Internationale Tagung, University of Jena, 7-10. June 2022, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

2021 Team Members’ Talks and Lectures on Medieval Badges

Podcast Interview, “Medieval Badges with Ann Marie Rasmussen,” hosted by Danièle Cybulskie of The Medieval Podcast, 10. November 2021.

Special Session, “Medieval Badges and Miniature Objects,” organized by Lloyd de Beer and Ann Marie Rasmussen, 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 10-15. May 2021. Featuring papers by Jennifer Lee, Lucy Splarn, and Ann Marie Rasmussen.

Invited Guest Talk, “Pilgerzeichen: Symbol, Souvenir, Massenware,” hosted by Museen Stade, Germany, 11. May 2021, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

Special Talk, “Bawdy Medieval Badges | Ann Marie Rasmussen + Melanie Jackson,” organized by Alice Kuzniar on behalf of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo, 13. April 2021.

2020 Team Members’ Talks and Lectures on Medieval Badges

Special Session, “Saints, Pilgrims, Badges, and Souvenirs Crossing Borders,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 5-9. July 2020.

Special Session, “Medieval Badges and Miniature Objects,” organized by Lloyd de Beer and Ann Marie Rasmussen, 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 7-10. May 2020. Featuring papers by Jennifer Lee, Lucy Splarn, and Ann Marie Rasmussen – POSTPONED due to Covid-19 pandemic.

2019 Team Members’ Talks and Lectures on Medieval Badges

“The Polyfunctionality of Script in the Medieval Badge Corpus,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 4. July 2019, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

“Moving Images: The Badge in Medieval Christendom,” 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 11. May 2019. Presentations by Amy Jeffs and Lloyd de Beer.

“Who and What Do You Pin It On? Badges and Belonging in Late Medieval Europe,” at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 11. May 2019, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

“Eine mit Zeichen aufgeladene Welt: Zur Funktion der Zeichen im Spätmittelalter” at the conference, Pilgerfahrten und Wallfahrtskirchen zwischen Weser und Elbe, Lüneburg, Germany, 4. April 2019, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

“The Polyfunctionality of Script on Medieval Badges,” University of Heidelberg, Germany, 27. March 2019, Ann Marie Rasmussen.

2018 Team Members’ Talks and Lectures on Medieval Badges

Ann Marie Rasmussen organized a lively and well-attended session on medieval badges at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. There were three talks:

Hanneke van Asperen, “Pewter and Silver Badges of Our Lady of Grace: New Sources on the Holy Site of Scheut.”
Ann Marie Rasmussen, “Visual Communication and Community Formation in the Middle Ages: Medieval Badges.”
Torsten Hiltmann, “Badges as Signs of Identification and Partisanship.”

Ann Marie Rasmussen gave an invited talk at the University of Western Ontario (London) in November, entitled “The Polyfunctionality of Script on Medieval Badges.”

Hanneke van Asperen & Annemarieke Willemsen (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden) organized a session at the International Medieval Congress 2018 in Leeds, England entitled “Pewter, Parchment, and Pixels: New Perspectives on Pilgrim and Secular Badges.” The papers included:

Amy Jeffs, “A Hood of Cherries: A New Interpretation of a Enigmatic Badge.”
Gabriel Byng & Clare Hall, “Mapping Badges in London and Paris: Iconographic Communities in Late Medieval Europe.”

In Print

Rasmussen, Ann Marie. Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).

Medieval Badges, a special issue of The Mediaeval Journal 8.1 (2018), edited by Hanneke van Asperen and Ann Marie Rasmussen.

Table of Contents

“Introduction: Medieval Badges,” by Ann Marie Ramussen and Hanneke van Asperen.
“‘Holiness’ from the Mud: Badges and Pilgrimage in German-Speaking Lands — A Case Study from the North German City of Stade (Lower Saxony) in the Former Archdiocese of Bremen,” by Hartmut Kühne and Jörg Ansorge.
“Pilgrim Badges of Charlemagne from Zürich,” by Jos Koldeweij.
“Secular Power, Divine Presence: The Badges of Our Lady of Aarschot,” by Hanneke van Asperen.
“‘Reckless effrontery’: Conflict and the Abuse of Badges in Late Medieval England,” by Jennifer Lee.
“Mobile Technologies and the Mobilization of Medieval Urban Identity,” by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak.

Projects

The Handbook on Medieval Badges. Ann Marie Rasmussen, editor. Editorial Board: Flora Cassen, Lloyd de Beer, Torsten Hiltmann, Amy Jeffs, Hartmut Kühne, Hanneke van Asperen.

The Handbook on Medieval Badges will expand and disseminate new knowledge about medieval badges as a form of visual communication that makes claims of belonging. It will unite three streams of research, all represented on the editorial board, that up until now have not engaged deeply with one another, and it will bring these unimposing yet ubiquitous objects to the attention of a wider scholarly audience.

Conference, “Pilgrimages and Pilgrimage Churches between Weser and Elbe: A Conference Sponsored by the Museums of Lüneburg and Stade.” Organized by Harmut Kühne, 3-5. April 2019, Lüneburg, Germany.

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