Photo: OKO Opava
A small badge dating from the fourteenth century has gone on display in the Czech city of Opava. This unassuming object can tell us a great deal about how interconnected the world of a medieval Czech person really was.
Pilgrimage badges were big business in the later Middle Ages – like souvenirs that travellers could buy as proof of their journeys to saints’ shrines and other sacred sites.
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Author: Danny Bate