Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture : Conflicted Roles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loewen, Peter Victor.

Contributor:

Waugh, Robin, 1959-

Taylor and Francis eBooks.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary Magdalene, Saint--In literature.

Mary Magdalene.

Mary Magdalene, Saint--Art.

Mary Magdalene, Saint.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This innovative and multidisciplinary collection visits representations and interpretations of Mary Magdalene in the medieval and early modern periods, questioning major scholarly assumptions behind the examination of female saints and their depictions in medieval artworks, literature, and music. Mary Magdalene's many and various characterizations from reformed prostitute to conversion-figure to devotee of Christ, to "apostle to the apostles," to spiritual advisor to the Prince of Marseilles, to hermit in the desert, to list just a few examples.

Contents:

Cover; Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Table of Abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Where Sacred Meets Secular-The Many Conflicted Roles of Mary Magdalene; Part I Mary Magdalene's Roles in Development; 1 Apostle to the Apostles: The Complexity of Medieval Preaching about Mary Magdalene; 2 The Proto-Cistercian Office for Mary Magdalene and Its Changes in the Course of the Twelfth Century;

3 The Invention and Development of the "Secular" Mary Magdalene in Late Renaissance Florentine PaintingPart II Mary Magdalene's Roles in Tension; 4 Mary Magdalene as a Model of Devotion, Penitence, and Authority in the Gospels of Henry the Lion and Matilda; 5 The Late-Medieval Mary Magdalene: Sacredness, Otherness, and Wildness; 6 Challenging Cluny in England?: Effacing the Priest in the Magdalene Liturgies at Lewes and Pontefract; Part III Mary Magdalene's Roles in Action; 7 From Apostola Apostolorum to Provençal Evangelist: On the Evolution of a Medieval Motif for Mary Magdalene;

8 Mary Magdalene Converts Her Vanities through Song: Signs of Franciscan Spirituality and Preaching in Late-Medieval German Drama9 "I wolde I wer as worthy to ben sekyr of thy lofe as Mary Mawdelyn was": The Magdalene as an Authorizing Tool in the Book of Margery Kempe; Part IV Mary Magdalene's Proto-Feminist and Other Subversive Roles; 10 The Voice of the Heart in a Box in the Middle English Lamentation of Mary Magdalene; 11 "Now is aloft þat late was ondyr!": Enclosure, Liberation, and Spatial Semantics in the Digby Mary Magdalene Play;

12 The Singing Prophetess: Mary of Magdala in J.S. Bach's St. Matthew PassionAfterword; Bibliographical Note; Contributors; Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Loewen, Peter. Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture : Conflicted Roles.

ISBN:

9781135081928

1135081921

OCLC:

875098943

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.