ABSTRACT
To recognize and to be recognized may be seen as one of the main criteria of medieval culture and communication. This holds particularly true with regard to the construction, use and perception of signs of (social) equality and difference, of oneself and the ‘others’, with the help of any incidentals of outer appearance. Dress, accessories, gestures, various types of behaviour and so on, that is, generally, all kinds and aspects of the languages of (material) signs and their dialects made the creation and utilization of identification marks possible.
