Alison Stones was Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh from 1984 to 2012. She received her degrees at the University of London and taught at the University of Minnesota from 1969 to 1984. She taught medieval art and architecture, iconography and palaeography. She specializes in medieval manuscript illumination, with a particular interest in the illustration of vernacular texts in French. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Correspondant étranger honoraire of the Société nationale des antiquaires de France, a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a Member of the International Committee of Experts on the Way of St James. She now lives between New York and Savignac-les-Églises, France.

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Books

Medieval Illumination, Glass and Sculpture in Minnesota Collections	La Vie de sainte Marguerite par Wace	The 'Codex Calixtinus' and the Shrine of St. James	Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes: The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes	Le livre d'images de Madame Marie
The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela: A Gazetteer	The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela: Critical Edition Volume I:The Manuscripts	The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela: Critical Edition Volume II:The Text	Le Roman de la Manekine	Gautier de Coinci Miracles, Music and Manuscripts

Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320, Part I, vols. 1 and 2 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France) (Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2013).
Gothic Manuscripts 1260-1320, Part II, vols. 1 and 2 (A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France) (Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2014).
Manuscrits de Cadouin, éd. Thomas Falmagne et Alison Stones avec la collaboration de Christelle Cazaux-Kowalski et Yolanta Zaluska Archives départementales de la Dordogne, 2015   Studies in Arthurian Illustration, 2 vols. London: Pindar Press, 2018 D.J.A. Ross, Medieval Illustrated Alexander-Books in French Verse, edited by Maud Pérez-Simon and Alison Stones (Manuscripta Illuminata 4),Turnhout, 2019 WWW Public Sites  The Lancelot-Graal Project Images of Medieval Art and Architecture http://www.medart.pitt.edu/ http://images.library.pitt.edu/c/chartres http://images.library.pitt.edu/v/vezelay