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Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture : Conflicted Roles / edited by Peter V. Loewen and Robin Waugh.

Contributor(s): Loewen, Peter Victor | Waugh, Robin, 1959-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture: 4.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2014Description: xx, 304 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415813150 (hardback); 0415813158 (hardback)Subject(s): Mary Magdalene, Saint | Mary Magdalene, Saint -- In literature | Mary Magdalene, Saint -- ArtDDC classification: 226.092 LOC classification: BS2485 | .M375 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Where sacred meets secular: the many conflicted roles of Mary Magdalene / Peter V. Loewen and Robin Waugh -- Apostle to the apostles: the complexity of medieval preaching about Mary Magdalene / Larissa Juliet Taylor -- The proto-Cistercian office for Mary Magdalene and its changes in the course of the twelfth century / Alicia Scarcez -- The invention and development of the "secular" Mary Magdalene in late Renaissance Florentine painting / Heidi J. Hornik -- Mary Magdalene as a model of devotion, penitence, and authority in the Gospels of Henry the Lion and Matilda / Elizabeth Monroe -- The late-medieval Mary Magdalene: sacredness, otherness, and wildness / Joana Antunes -- Challenging Cluny in England? Effacing the priest in the Magdalene liturgies at Lewes and Pontefract / Donna Alfano Bussell -- From Apostola Apostolorum to Provençal evangelist: on the evolution of a medieval motif for Mary Magdalene / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Mary Magdalene converts her vanities through song: signs of Franciscan spirituality and preaching in late-medieval German drama / Peter V. Loewen -- "I wolde I wer as worthy to ben sekyr of thy lofe as Mary Mawdelyn was": the Magdalene as an authorizing tool in the Book of Margery Kempe / Juliette Vuille -- The voice of the heart in a box in the Middle English Lamentation of Mary Magdalene / Robin Waugh -- "Now is aloft þat late was ondyr!" : enclosure, liberation, and spatial semantics in the Digby Mary Magdalene play / Joanne Findon -- The singing prophetess: Mary of Magdala in J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion / Corinna Herr -- Afterword / Theresa Coletti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Where sacred meets secular: the many conflicted roles of Mary Magdalene / Peter V. Loewen and Robin Waugh -- Apostle to the apostles: the complexity of medieval preaching about Mary Magdalene / Larissa Juliet Taylor -- The proto-Cistercian office for Mary Magdalene and its changes in the course of the twelfth century / Alicia Scarcez -- The invention and development of the "secular" Mary Magdalene in late Renaissance Florentine painting / Heidi J. Hornik -- Mary Magdalene as a model of devotion, penitence, and authority in the Gospels of Henry the Lion and Matilda / Elizabeth Monroe -- The late-medieval Mary Magdalene: sacredness, otherness, and wildness / Joana Antunes -- Challenging Cluny in England? Effacing the priest in the Magdalene liturgies at Lewes and Pontefract / Donna Alfano Bussell -- From Apostola Apostolorum to Provençal evangelist: on the evolution of a medieval motif for Mary Magdalene / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Mary Magdalene converts her vanities through song: signs of Franciscan spirituality and preaching in late-medieval German drama / Peter V. Loewen -- "I wolde I wer as worthy to ben sekyr of thy lofe as Mary Mawdelyn was": the Magdalene as an authorizing tool in the Book of Margery Kempe / Juliette Vuille -- The voice of the heart in a box in the Middle English Lamentation of Mary Magdalene / Robin Waugh -- "Now is aloft þat late was ondyr!" : enclosure, liberation, and spatial semantics in the Digby Mary Magdalene play / Joanne Findon -- The singing prophetess: Mary of Magdala in J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion / Corinna Herr -- Afterword / Theresa Coletti.

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