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The Making of the Magdalen : Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages / Katherine Ludwig Jansen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) : 48 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691058504
  • 9781400843886
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 274/.05 22
LOC classification:
  • BS2485 .J36 2000eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Transcription, Translation, and Names -- Introduction -- One. "In Memory of Her": From History to Legend -- Part One. The Mendicant Magdalen -- Two. The Vita Apostolica -- Three. The Vita Activa -- Four. The Vita Contemplativa -- Part Two: The Wages of Sin -- Five. "Vanity of Vanities, All Is Vanity" -- Six. "There Was a Sinner in the City" -- Part Three. Do Penance -- Seven. The Exemplar of Perfect Penance -- Part Four. Responses -- Eight. Responses to the Scriptural Saint -- Nine. Responses to the Legendary Saint -- Ten. In the Shadow of the Virgin -- Eleven. The House of Anjou: A Royal Response -- Twelve. "In Memory of Her": From Legend to History -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Unpublished Primary Sources -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index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. Analyzing previously unpublished sermons, Katherine Jansen uses the lens of medieval preaching to examine the mendicant friars' transformation of Mary Magdalen, a shadowy gospel figure, into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. She draws on diverse historical sources to reveal the laity's devotion to Mary Magdalen, which departed significantly from the friars' image of the saint, signaling a major development in popular religious practice and personal piety. Finally, the author comprehensively addresses the question of the House of Anjou's alliance with the Magdalen, and illuminates the relationship between politics and sanctity in southern France and Italy.Jansen shows how perceptions of the Magdalen merged with errors and misunderstandings to shape the social, spiritual, and political agendas of the later Middle Ages. She brings to life the rich complexity of medieval culture, which condemned female sexuality and women's preaching and yet popularized the veneration of Mary Magdalen as a former prostitute chosen by Christ to be the "apostle of the apostles," the first to witness and preach the Good News of the Resurrection.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Transcription, Translation, and Names -- Introduction -- One. "In Memory of Her": From History to Legend -- Part One. The Mendicant Magdalen -- Two. The Vita Apostolica -- Three. The Vita Activa -- Four. The Vita Contemplativa -- Part Two: The Wages of Sin -- Five. "Vanity of Vanities, All Is Vanity" -- Six. "There Was a Sinner in the City" -- Part Three. Do Penance -- Seven. The Exemplar of Perfect Penance -- Part Four. Responses -- Eight. Responses to the Scriptural Saint -- Nine. Responses to the Legendary Saint -- Ten. In the Shadow of the Virgin -- Eleven. The House of Anjou: A Royal Response -- Twelve. "In Memory of Her": From Legend to History -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Unpublished Primary Sources -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index

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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. Analyzing previously unpublished sermons, Katherine Jansen uses the lens of medieval preaching to examine the mendicant friars' transformation of 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. She draws on diverse historical sources to reveal the laity's devotion to Mary Magdalen, which departed significantly from the friars' image of the saint, signaling a major development in popular religious practice and personal piety. Finally, the author comprehensively addresses the question of the House of Anjou's alliance with the Magdalen, and illuminates the relationship between politics and sanctity in southern France and Italy.Jansen shows how perceptions of the Magdalen merged with errors and misunderstandings to shape the social, spiritual, and political agendas of the later Middle Ages. She brings to life the rich complexity of medieval culture, which condemned female sexuality and women's preaching and yet popularized the veneration of Mary Magdalen as a former prostitute chosen by Christ to be the "apostle of the apostles," the first to witness and preach the Good News of the Resurrection.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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