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Mary Magdalene and the drama of saints : theater, gender, and religion in late medieval England /

"A sinner-saint who embraced then renounced sexual and worldly pleasures; a woman who, through her attachment to Jesus, embodied both erotic and sacred power; a symbol of penance and an exemplar of contemplative and passionate devotion: perhaps no figure stood closer to the center of late medie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coletti, Theresa, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2004]
Series:Middle Ages series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The drama of saints
  • Some East Anglian Magdalenes
  • Mystic and preacher
  • Gender and the anthropology of redemption
  • Bodies, theater, and sacred mediations.