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The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West
[Buy it!] | Karl-Heinz Frieser; John T. Greenwood | USD 98.50
(Wed May 29 04:29:31 2024) | Abebooks | First Choice Books | ISBN10: 1591142946, ISBN13: 9781591142942, [publisher: Naval Institute Press, U.S.A.] Hardcover 507pp including bibliography, index of personalities, and index Lots of detailed maps Photographs For the first time in English, an illuminating German perspective on the decisive blitzkrieg campaign-written by a German historian and edited by an American historian This English translation is published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army
[coeurd'Alene, ID, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005] |
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The Making of the Magdalen : Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages
[Buy it!] | Katherine Ludwig Jansen | USD 68.53
(Wed May 29 04:29:31 2024) | AbebooksDE | AHA-BUCH GmbH | ISBN10: 0691089876, ISBN13: 9780691089874, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Best known during the Middle Ages as the prostitute who became a faithful follower of Christ, Mary Magdalen was the most beloved female saint after the Virgin Mary. Why the Magdalen became so popular, what meanings she conveyed, and how her story evolved over the centuries are the focus of this compelling exploration of late medieval religious culture. Analyzing previously unpublished sermons, Katherine Jansen uses the lens of medieval preaching to examine the mendicant friars' transformation of Mary Magdalen, a shadowy gospel figure, into an emblem of action and contemplation, a symbol of vanity and lust, a model of perfect penance, and the embodiment of hope and salvation. She draws on diverse historical sources to reveal the laity's devotion to Mary Magdalen, which departed significantly from the friars' image of the saint, signaling a major development in popular religious practice and personal piety. Finally, the author comprehensively addresses the question of the House of Anjou's alliance with the Magdalen, and illuminates the relationship between politics and sanctity in southern France and Italy.Jansen shows how perceptions of the Magdalen merged with errors and misunderstandings to shape the social, spiritual, and political agendas of the later Middle Ages. She brings to life the rich complexity of medieval culture, which condemned female sexuality and women's preaching and yet popularized the veneration of Mary Magdalen as a former prostitute chosen by Christ to be the 'apostle of the apostles,' the first to witness and preach the Good News of the Resurrection.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2001]
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