Document Type
Edited Collection
Description
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 a narrowly English “folk art,” were avidly collected and appreciated throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages. This collection of essays seeks to place the alabasters within a variety of late medieval textual and visual contexts, taking into account questions of materiality, the role of seriality in the changing modes of artistic production of the late Middle Ages, and broad debates about whether it is useful to draw distinctions between "high" and "low" cultures.
Publication Date
1-18-2021
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications
City
Kalamazoo
ISBN
9781501518126
Keywords
Alabaster; sculpture; art; devotion
Disciplines
Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture | Medieval Studies
Citation for Published Book
Teviotdale, Elizabeth, Jessica Brantley, and Stephen Parkinson, eds. Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2021.
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Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture Commons, Medieval Studies Commons
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