English Alabaster Carvings and Their Cultural Contexts

New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages.

English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late medieval and early modern Europe. Carvings made of this lustrous white stone were sold throughout England and abroad, and as a result many survived the iconoclasm that destroyed so much else from this period. They are a unique and valuable witness to the material culture of the Middle Ages.
This volume incorporates a variety of new approaches to these artefacts, employing methodologies drawn from a number of different disciplines. Its chapters explore a range of key points connected to alabasters: their origins, their general history and their social, cultural, intellectual and devotional contexts.

ZULEIKA MURAT is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Medieval Art at the University of Padua.

Contributors: Jennifer Alexander, Jon Bayliss, Claire Blakey, Stephanie De Roemer, Rachel King, AndrewKirkman, Aleksandra Lipinska, Zuleika Murat, Luca Palozzi, Sophie Phillips, Nigel Ramsay, Christina Welch, Philip Weller, Kim Woods, Michaela Z schg

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783274077
• ISBN13: 9781783274079
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.6"