This volume offers fresh approaches to both 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. Devotional alabaster images too often thought of as
folk art and narrowly English were avidly collected and appreciated throughout Europe in the
late Middle Ages and this collection of essays seeks to help integrate them into the current
discourse on materiality the role of seriality in the changing modes of artistic production of
the late Middle Ages and the broad debate about whether it is useful to draw distinctions
between elite high and folk low culture.
