Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England

This volume offers fresh approaches to both the material and the subject matter of late medieval English alabaster sculptures, bringing them into dialogue with twenty-first-century scholarship on pre-modern visual culture. Devotional alabaster images, too often thought of as "folk art" and narrowly English, were avidly collected and appreciated throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages, and this collection of essays seeks to help integrate them into the current discourse on materiality, the role of seriality in the changing modes of artistic production of the late Middle Ages, and the broad debate about whether it is useful to draw distinctions between elite/high and folk/low culture.

About the author

J. Brantley, Yale U., New Haven, S. Perkinson, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, and E. C. Teviotdale, Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo, USA.

Summary

An innovative and fresh set of approaches to the material and subject matter of medieval English alabaster sculptures.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jessica Brantley (Editor), Jessica Caroline Brantley (Editor), Jessica Caroline (Professor of English Brantley (Editor), Elizabeth C Teviotdale (Editor), Jessic Caroline Brantley (Editor), Elizabeth Cover Teviotdale (Editor), Stephe Perkinson (Editor), Stephen Perkinson (Editor), Stephen (Associate Professor of Art History Perkinson (Editor), Elizabeth C Teviotdale (Editor), Elizabeth C. Teviotdale (Editor), Elizabeth Cover Teviotdale (Editor), Elizabeth Cover (Assistant Director of the Medieval Institute Teviotdale (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2021
• EAN: 9781501518126
• ISBN: 978-1-5015-1812-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 24 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 766 g
• Illustrations: 43 b/w and 66 col. ill.
• Series: Studies in Iconography; Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations; Studies in Iconography: Themes
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages