Moving with the Magdalen

Joanne Anderson (PhD 2010, Warwick) is Lecturer in 13th-17th Century History of Art at the Warburg Institute in London, UK.

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

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