The Making of the Magdalen : : Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages / / Katherine Ludwig Jansen.
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 comp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 48 halftones |
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Table of 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- Unpublished Primary Sources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