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"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, mean that the many conflicted representations of Mary Magdalene apply to a staggering variety of cultural material, including art, liturgy, music, literature, theology, hagiography, and the historical record. Furthermore, Mary Magdalene has grown into an extremely popular and controversial figure due to recent books and movies concerning her, and due to a groundswell of general speculation concerning her relationship to Jesus: was she his acquaintance, follower, companion, wife, family-member, or lover? This volume employs a broad spectrum of theoretical methodologies in order to present poststructuralist, postcolonial, postmodernist, hagiographic, and feminist readings of the figure of Mary Magdalene, addressing and interrogating her conflicting roles and the precise relationship between her sacred and secular representations." --

Thematology --- Iconography --- Mary Magdalene --- anno 500-1499 --- Mary Magdalene, --- In literature --- 225-055.2 --- Vrouwen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Maddalena, --- Madeleine, --- Magdaghinē, --- Magdalene, --- Maria Maddalena, --- Maria Magdalena, --- Mariam Magdaghenatsʻi, --- Marie Madeleine, --- Mary Magdalen, --- In literature. --- 225-055.2 Vrouwen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Maryam al-Majdalīyah, --- Maria Magdalena --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint - In literature --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint - Art

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Prostitute, apostle, evangelist--the conversion of Mary Magdalene from sinner to saint is one of the Christian tradition's most compelling stories, and one of the most controversial. The identity of the woman--or, more likely, women--represented by this iconic figure has been the subject of dispute since the Church's earliest days. Much less appreciated is the critical role the Magdalene played in remaking modern Christianity. In a vivid recreation of the Catholic and Protestant cultures that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, The Magdalene in the Reformation reveals that the Magdalene inspired a devoted following among those eager to find new ways to relate to God and the Church. In popular piety, liturgy, and preaching, as well as in education and the arts, the Magdalene tradition provided both Catholics and Protestants with the flexibility to address the growing need for reform. Margaret Arnold shows that as the medieval separation between clergy and laity weakened, the Magdalene represented a new kind of discipleship for men and women and offered alternative paths for practicing a Christian life. Where many have seen two separate religious groups with conflicting preoccupations, Arnold sees Christians who were often engaged in a common dialogue about vocation, framed by the life of Mary Magdalene. Arnold disproves the idea that Protestants removed saints from their theology and teaching under reform. Rather, devotion to Mary Magdalene laid the foundation within Protestantism for the public ministry of women.--

225-055.2 --- 284.1 --- 284.1 Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther --- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther --- 225-055.2 Vrouwen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Vrouwen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Mary Magdalene, --- Maddalena, --- Madeleine, --- Magdaghinē, --- Magdalene, --- Maria Maddalena, --- Maria Magdalena, --- Mariam Magdaghenatsʻi, --- Marie Madeleine, --- Mary Magdalen, --- Maryam al-Majdalīyah, --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Church history --- History of Europe --- Christianity --- Reformation --- women [female humans] --- Mary Magdalene --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Maria Magdalena

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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene’s character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.

Iconography --- Mary Magdalene --- Christian art and symbolism --- Christian women saints in art --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Saintes chrétiennes dans l'art --- Mary Magdalene, --- Art --- 225-055.2 --- 246 "04/14" --- 246 "15/17" --- Vrouwen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Christelijke kunst en symbolisme--Middeleeuwen --- Christelijke kunst en symbolisme--Nieuwe Tijd --- Maddalena, --- Madeleine, --- Magdaghinē, --- Magdalene, --- Maria Maddalena, --- Maria Magdalena, --- Mariam Magdaghenatsʻi, --- Marie Madeleine, --- Mary Magdalen, --- 225-055.2 Vrouwen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Maryam al-Majdalīyah, --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Saintes chrétiennes dans l'art --- Art. --- Christian art and symbolism. --- ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious --- Saints. --- Persons --- Maria Magdalena --- Iconographie --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint - Art --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint