Full Description
This volume offers fresh approaches to 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. The book comprises an introduction by Brantley and Perkinson; ten essays by scholars trained in the history of medieval art and/or medieval English literature, including Brantley and Perkinson; and an afterword by Paul Binski.
Contents
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Introduction by Jessica Brantley and Stephen Perkinson
1. The Origins of English Alabaster Carving: A Reappraisal by Kim Woods
2. From Stone to Statue: The Geology and Art of English Alabaster Panels by Anne F. Harris
3. The Making of "Mynding Signes": Copying, Convention, and Creativity in Late Medieval English Alabasters by Stephen Perkinson
4. Looking at the Word: The Verbal Cultures of Late Medieval English Alabasters by Jessica Brantley
5. English Saints in Alabaster and Aureate Verse by Catherine Sanok
6. Pilgrimage and Politics: The Alabaster Heads of Saint John the Baptist by Suzanne Verderber
7. The Bourgeois Bedroom in Alabaster Adorations of the Kings by Sarah Stanbury
8. The Present of Future Things: Medieval Media and the Signs of the End of the World by Shannon Gayk
9. "A Softer Glory": An Afterword on Alabaster and the New Aesthetics by Paul Binski
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