The Making of the Magdalen (eBook)

Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages

Katherine Ludwig Jansen (Autor)

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2001
408 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4388-6 (ISBN)

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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 Analyzing previously unpublished sermons, Katherine Jansen uses the lens of medieval preaching to examine the mendicant friars' transformation of Mary Magdalen, a shadowy gospel figure, into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 "e;apostle of the apostles,"e; the first to witness and preach the Good News of the Resurrection.

Autor

Katherine Ludwig Jansen is Assistant Professor of History at Catholic University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2001
• Zusatzinfo: 48 halftones
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: Absalom • Adornment • Agnes Blannbekin • Alijt Bake • Analogy • anchorite • Animism • Apostolic constitution • aragonite • Archbasilica of St. John Lateran • Augustinians • Aureola • Banderole • Baptism • Baptistery • Barbara Newman • Basilica • Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore • Bathsheba • Bernard Gui • bonaventure • Bootham • Bride of Christ • Bridget of Sweden • Caesarius of Heisterbach • Calendar reform • Caltabellotta • calvary • Canonization • Canticle • Career • Carthusians • Catharism • Catherine of Alexandria • Catherine of Siena • Cathy • Cenozoic • Cesena • Ceteris paribus • Chartres Cathedral • chauvinism • Christian Order • Christina of Markyate • Chronostratigraphy • Church of St. James (Brno) • Cistercians • confessor • Confraternity • conversion narrative • Co-Redemptrix • Database • Decision-Making • dieu • Dominican order • dormitory • Douai • Elaine Pagels • Eocene • Episode • etymology • Eustochium • evangelica • Exemplum • Exorcism • Filles-Dieu • foraminifera • Franciscans • friar • General journal • Getty Research Institute • G. G. Coulton • glorification • Gloriosa (Ito) • Glossa ordinaria • God • Gregorian Reform • Gregorius • Guelphs and Ghibellines • Hagiography • head of the church • Holy Prepuce • holy water • Humiliati • inedia • Institution • Inter caetera • Isidore of Seville • Jacobus de Voragine • John Chrysostom • Keele University • Ketuvim • Lamanon • Lectio Divina • Lectionary • Limoux • Litany • Lollardy • Maddalena de' Medici (1473–1528) • Magdalenian • MAGIS • Maiella • Marcionism • Margaret of Cortona • Margery Kempe • Marian devotions • Mary Douglas • mary magdalene • Mary, mother of Jesus • Mary of Bethany • mary of egypt • Meister Eckhart • Mendicant orders • Milord • misericordia • Missionary • Modello • Monaldeschi • Mortuus • M. R. James • Musto (company) • Nag Hammadi • narrative • Novatian • Odo of Cluny • Offertory • Oligocene • Pallbearer • Pataria • Penitential • pericope • Peter Damian • Phaidon Press • pharisees • Pierre Bersuire • Pistis Sophia • Pitirim Sorokin • Porziuncola • Precept • Predella • Queen Mary Psalter • Religio • Remigius • Rieti • R. I. Moore • Sacro Convento • Saint Gall • Saint-Maximin • Salvation History • San Domenico Maggiore • Santa Maria Maddalena • Santa Trinita • Sermon • Sheed and Ward • Simone Martini • Simon the Pharisee • Sister Catherine Treatise • Standardization • St. Peter's Basilica • Supplication • Susanna (Book of Daniel) • Talcott Parsons • Tektite • Tertullian • The Decameron • Their Lives • The Three Marys • Thomas Aquinas • Thorstein Veblen • Trento • Umiliana de' Cerchi • Varazze • vestment • Vielle • Vita Christi • Vox Clamantis • Waldensians • Wesley C. Mitchell • wreath • zur
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4388-X / 140084388X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4388-6 / 9781400843886