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Mary Magdalene, iconographic studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
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ISSN: 18773192 ISBN: 9789004231955 9789004232242 9004232249 1283854767 9004231951 Year: 2012 Volume: 7 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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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.

Christina of Markyate: a twelfth-century holy woman
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ISBN: 0415308585 0415308593 0203493850 9780203493854 9780415308595 9780415308588 1134393938 9781134393930 1280267402 9781280267406 9786610267408 6610267405 9781134393886 9781134393923 113439392X 1134393881 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Routledge

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Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser present a vivid interdisciplinary study devoted to the life, work and extant vita of Christina of Markyate, which draws on research from a wide range of disciplines. This fascinating and comprehensive collection surveys the life of an extraordinary medieval woman. Christina of Markyate made a vow of chastity at an early age, against the wishes of her parents who intended her to marry. When forced into wedlock, she fled in disguise and went into hiding, receiving refuge in a network of hermitages. Christina became a religious recluse and eve

The cult of Saint Thecla
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ISBN: 0198270194 9780191568350 019156835X 9780198270195 9780199548712 1281998753 9786611998752 0199548714 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford New York

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Thecla, a disciple of the apostle Paul, became perhaps the most celebrated female saint and 'martyr' in the early church. Bringing together literary, artistic, and archaeological evidence, the author shows how the cult of Saint Thecla was especially popular among early Christian women. - ;Thecla, a disciple of the apostle Paul, became perhaps the most celebrated female saint and 'martyr' among Christians in late antiquity. In the early church, Thecla's example was associated with the piety of women - in particular, with women's ministry and travel. Devotion to Saint Thecla quickly spread throu.

Saints' lives and the rhetoric of gender : male and female in Merovingian hagiography
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ISBN: 1280470410 0195353617 0585254095 9780585254098 9781280470417 0195117220 9780195117226 0197741053 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Medieval lives of female saints have attracted wide attention in recent years. In this revisionist work, John Kitchen looks at several texts-lives of both male and female saints.

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