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Author:   Elizabeth Cover Teviotdale (Assistant Director of the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University) ,  Jessica Caroline Brantley (Professor of English, Yale University) ,  Stephen Perkinson (Associate Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College)
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.755kg
ISBN:  

9781501518126

ISBN 10:   1501518127
Pages:   347
Publication Date:   18 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Illustrations 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 Index

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Elizabeth C. Teviotdale is Assistant Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University and author of The Stammheim Missal. Jessica Brantley is Professor of English at Yale University and author of Reading in the Wilderness: Private Reading and Public Performance in Late Medieval England.

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