English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts

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English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts

Edited by: Zuleika Murat
With contributions by: Aleksandra Lipinska , Andrew Kirkman , Christina Welch , Claire Blakey , Jennifer S. Alexander , Jon Bayliss , Kim Woods , Luca Palozzi , Michaela Zöschg , Nigel Ramsay , Rachel King , Sophie Phillips , Stephanie De Roemer and Zuleika Murat

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Volume 16 | Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

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

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Arts Arts, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
INTRODUCTION Zuleika Murat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1 ‘BURTON-UPON-TRENT, NOT NOTTINGHAM.’ THE EVOLVING STUDY OF MEDIEVAL ENGLISH ALABASTER SCULPTURE Nigel Ramsay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
2 STONE TO ENSURE VICTORY AND TO GENERATE FRIENDSHIPS. ON THE MEANING OF ALABASTER Aleksandra Lipińska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
3 CONTEXTUALISING ENGLISH ALABASTERS IN THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN Luca Palozzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
4 ENGLISH ALABASTER IMAGES AS RECIPIENTS OF MUSIC IN THE LONG FIFTEENTH CENTURY: ENGLISH SACRED TRADITIONS IN A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE Philip Weller and Andrew Kirkman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
5 CONTEXTUALISING ALABASTERS: IN THEIR IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT. THE ‘ANCONA D’ALLABASTRO DI DIVERSE FIGURE’ OF THE NOVALESA ABBEY: MEANING AND FUNCTION Zuleika Murat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
6 ALABASTER CARVINGS IN LATE-MEDIEVAL LINCOLNSHIRE Jennifer Alexander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	150
7 ‘TABERNACLES, HOWSYNGES AND OTHER THINGS’. THREE ALABASTERS FROM THE BURRELL COLLECTION IN CONTEXT Claire Blakey, Rachel King and Michaela Zöschg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
8 CONSERVATION STUDY OF THREE ALABASTER CARVINGS FROM THE BURRELL COLLECTION, GLASGOW MUSEUMS Sophie Philipps and Stephanie De Roemer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	194
9 ‘SMOOTH AS MONUMENTAL ALABASTER’. THE ALABASTER TOMB INDUSTRY IN ENGLAND, 1550–1660 Jon Bayliss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	214
10 MERCHANTS’ TOMBS IN ALABASTER Kim Woods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	236
11 EXPLORING ALICE: THE THEOLOGICAL, SOCIO-HISTORICAL, AND ANATOMICAL CONTEXT OF THE DE LA POLE CADAVER SCULPTURE Christina Welch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	276
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	296
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	340

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August 16, 2019

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9781787445659

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Boydell Press

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376

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12 colour, 93 b/w illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787445659

eBook ISBN: 9781787445659

Keywords for this book

Medieval; statues; Norwich; Altarpieces; Carvings; Tombs; English Midlands; Devotion; Middle Ages; Reformation; Iconoclasm; Spirituality; Devotional Practices; Burrell; Sculpture; British Museum; Alabastermen; Materility; Material Culture

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English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts

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