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Author Jansen, Katherine Ludwig, 1957-

Title The making of the Magdalen : preaching and popular devotion in the later Middle Ages / Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Edition 1st pbk. ed
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 389 pages) : illustrations
Series ATLA Special Series
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; A NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION, TRANSLATION, AND NAMES; Introduction; ONE In Memory of Her: From History to Legend; PART I: THE MENDICANT MAGDALEN; TWO The Vita Apostolica; THREE The Vita Activa; FOUR The Vita Contemplativa; PART II: THE WAGES OF SIN; FIVE Vanity of Vanities, All Is Vanity -- SIX There Was a Sinner in the City -- PART III: DO PENANCE; SEVEN The Exemplar of Perfect Penance; PART IV: RESPONSES; EIGHT Responses to the Scriptural Saint; NINE Responses to the Legendary Saint
TEN In the Shadow of the VirginELEVEN The House of Anjou: A Royal Response; EPILOGUE ""In Memory of Her"": From Legend to History; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED; Unpublished Primary Sources; Published Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; INDEX
Summary "Best known during the Middle Ages as the prostitute who became a faithful follower of Christ, Mary Magdalen was the most beloved female saint after the Virgin Mary. Why the Magdalen became so popular, what meanings she conveyed, and how her story evolved over the centuries are the focus of this compelling exploration of late medieval religious culture." "Through the lens of medieval preaching, as well as the responses of those who heard the sermons preached, Katherine Jansen brings to light previously unpublished sermons to show how and why the mendicant friars transformed Mary Magdalen, a shadowy gospel figure, into an emblem of action and contemplation, a symbol of vanity and lust, a model of perfect penance, and the embodiment of hope and salvation. Jansen also draws on a variety of historical sources - from saints' lives to patronage patterns - to examine the laity's reception of the saint. She reveals that the laity's devotion to Mary Magdalen departed in significant ways from the friars' image of the saint, signaling a major development in popular religious practice and personal piety." "The making of the Magdalen will appeal to readers of medieval history and religion, to those with an interest in the study of women, sexuality, and gender, and to those who are interested in saints throughout the ages."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-370) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Mary Magdalene, Saint -- Cult -- Italy -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Mary Magdalene, Saint -- Cult -- France -- Provence -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
SUBJECT Mary Magdalene, Saint fast
Subject Preaching -- Italy -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Women in Christianity -- Italy -- History -- To 1500
Preaching -- France -- Provence -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Women in Christianity -- France -- Provence -- History -- To 1500
Spiritual life -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Sermons, Medieval -- France -- History and criticism
Sermons, Medieval -- Italy -- History and criticism
Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500
RELIGION -- History.
Christian hagiography
Cults
Preaching -- Middle Ages
Sermons, Medieval
Women in Christianity
SUBJECT Italy -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068878
Provence (France) -- Church history
Subject France
France -- Provence
Italy
Genre/Form Church history
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0691089876
9780691089874
0691058504
9780691058504