Then look for these same features in other local buildings, especially older churches. Local newspapers will contain notices of locations and visiting times for local altars. If one went to Compostella in Spain, the badge looked like a seashell. Pilgrims who went to Canterbury bought badges that looked like Thomas Becket. A wide variety of pilgrim badges can be seen in in museums.
Replicas are available in many places.
To view those dramas, one stood in a fixed location as the various guilds came by and presented plays based on stories taken from the Old and New Testaments. While the medieval players did not toss out throws, watching the plays pass by was much like watching a parade which has a narrative. Among the fascinating items in the collection of medieval manuscripts and early printed works are an elaborately decorated 12th Century missal and a page from the Gutenberg Bible. Tulane also possesses a rare copy of the Kelmscott Works of Chaucer . Still, there are enough works there to make a medieval field trip worthwhile.