Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England

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Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England

Edited by: Jessica Brantley , Stephen Perkinson and Elizabeth C. Teviotdale

In the series Studies in Iconography

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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.

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

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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Medievalists, scholars of History of Art
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 43
- Coloured Illustrations: 66
Keywords: Alabaster; Sculpture; Art; Devotion

Hardcover

Published: January 18, 2021
ISBN: 9781501518126