Reassessing Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England

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.

• IllustrationsIntroduction by Jessica Brantley and Stephen Perkinson1. The Origins of English Alabaster Carving: A Reappraisal by Kim Woods2. From Stone to Statue: The Geology and Art of English Alabaster Panels by Anne F. Harris3. The Making of “Mynding Signes”: Copying, Convention, and Creativity in Late Medieval English Alabasters by Stephen Perkinson4. Looking at the Word: The Verbal Cultures of Late Medieval English Alabasters by Jessica Brantley5. English Saints in Alabaster and Aureate Verse by Catherine Sanok6. Pilgrimage and Politics: The Alabaster Heads of Saint John the Baptist by Suzanne Verderber7. The Bourgeois Bedroom in Alabaster Adorations of the Kings by Sarah Stanbury8. The Present of Future Things: Medieval Media and the Signs of the End of the World by Shannon Gayk9. “A Softer Glory”: An Afterword on Alabaster and the New Aesthetics by Paul BinskiIndex