The Making of the Magdalen
Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages
Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Princeton University Press, 2001
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780691089874
- ISBN-10
- 0691089876
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2001
- Publication date
- 2001-07-22
- Pages
- 408
- Dimensions
- 232 x 158 x 24
- Weight
- 684