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“Medieval Pilgrimages, Queer Souvenirs?”
Karma Lochrie
(Indiana University)Thursday September 17th, 2009
5:00 pm
Tribble Hall, A209
Wake Forest University
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a strange trove of pilgrims' badges were discovered at the bottom of the Seine in Paris and in the Netherlands, primarily. Although medieval pilgrims' badges were a common form of advertising one's completion of particular pilgrimages, these badges represent male and female genitals engaged in various activities and clearly dressed for occasions. Prof. Lochrie’s own first introduction to these strange medieval artifacts was at the Cluny Museum in Paris, where she found one tucked away in a dark display case in the basement. his talk attempts to consider these objects as medieval things, including their function within the context of pilgrimage, he practice of wearing pilgrim's badges, and contemporary, secular legacies of these mysterious medieval accessories.
