Moving with the Magdalen: Late Medieval Art and Devotion in the Alps
 
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ISBN13:9781350435841
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Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:268 pages
Size:234x156 mm
Weight:769 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 40 colour and 44 bw illus
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Moving with the Magdalen

Late Medieval Art and Devotion in the Alps
 
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Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the saint's iconography across the mountain range. Together they underscore how the Magdalen's cult and contingent imagery interacted with the environmental conditions and landscape of the Alps along late medieval routes.

Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the saint's iconography across the mountain range. Together they underscore how the Magdalen's cult and contingent imagery interacted with the environmental conditions and landscape of the Alps along late medieval routes.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations


Introduction
The Late Medieval Magdalen
Image, Faith and Place - Mary Magdalen in the Alps
Researching Mary Magdalen
Book Structure

Chapter One: Pilgrimage Politics and Late Medieval Art
A Toll of Devotion - Mary Magdalen in the Aosta Valley
Pilgrims' Progress and Experiential Objects
Art in an Age of Magdalen Fermentation
Scaling up the Map

Chapter Two: Regulating the Mountain Parish Saint
Sankt Magdalen in Dusch and its Paintings
A Habit of Choice
Art and the Premonstratensian Order
Imaging Mary Magdalen in a Mountain Parish
Last Things
Art and the Sacralising of the Mountains

Chapter Three: Networks of Devotion in Bozen
Sankt Magdalena in Prazöll - Renewing the Parish Saint
International Networks and the Pairing of Pilgrimage Saints
Mary Magdalen and the Regional Pilgrimage Context
Family Patronage and Networks - the von Brandis
Devotional Networks and Strategic Patronage
Up the Mountain with the Magdalen

Chapter Four: Framing Pilgrimage Practice in Tyrol
Framing Local History
The Universal Local Saint
The Imagery of Redemption

Chapter Five: Mining Devotion in the Mountains
Mining the Iconography of Mary Magdalen
'bonum argentum de Sneberch' - Working and Praying at the Coalface
Mary Magdalen and the Miners

Chapter Six: Alpine Workshops and Artistic Transmission
Santa Maria Maddalena, Cusiano - History and Decoration
The Magdalen Fresco Cycle
Art and Artistic Enterprise
Patrons and the Commission
Pathways of Transmission
Stock Types and Topicality

Chapter Seven: Devotion and Resurrection in the Alps
Mother of the Parish
Picturing a New Patron Saint
Reconstructing the Life of Mary Magdalen
Generating Faith
Cradle to Grave Care
Informing and Reforming the Parishes

Coda: The Alps as Kunstlandschaft

Bibliography