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The Magdalene in the Reformation

The Magdalene in the Reformation Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/489/1301586/489boon.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 (in Austen’s case) didactic parody. They are expressions of an uneasy fascination that Townshend tracks across eight decades of controversy. As Townshend shows, the eventual dea fl tion of the debate over the Gothic legacy in the modern age was foreshadowed by a seemingly mundane linguistic innovation: the coinage of the word medieval. Its first recorded usage dated by the Oxford English Dictionary to 1817, this more neutral historical marker pointed ahead to the Victorians’ tam - ing of the “Gothic” past into an unthreatening subject of historical and aesthetic inquiry. — Y ael Shapir a doi 10.1215/0961754X-9268291 Margaret Arnold, The Magdalene in the Reformation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), 312 pp. In the late sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great fashioned a single, polymor- phous character out of Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany (Martha’s sister who sat listening to Jesus’s teachings instead of cooking for him), and the unnamed sinner of the Gospels who used her long locks to clean Jesus’s feet with unguent. Medieval thinkers quickly identie fi d the sin of this composite Magdalene as sexual, thus developing a paradoxical figure who was at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

The Magdalene in the Reformation

Boon, Jessica A.
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (3) – Aug 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/489/1301586/489boon.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 (in Austen’s case) didactic parody. They are expressions of an uneasy fascination that Townshend tracks across eight decades of controversy. As Townshend shows, the eventual dea fl tion of the debate over the Gothic legacy in the modern age was foreshadowed by a seemingly mundane linguistic innovation: the coinage of the word medieval. Its first recorded usage dated by the Oxford English Dictionary to 1817, this more neutral historical marker pointed ahead to the Victorians’ tam - ing of the “Gothic” past into an unthreatening subject of historical and aesthetic inquiry. — Y ael Shapir a doi 10.1215/0961754X-9268291 Margaret Arnold, The Magdalene in the Reformation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), 312 pp. In the late sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great fashioned a single, polymor- phous character out of Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany (Martha’s sister who sat listening to Jesus’s teachings instead of cooking for him), and the unnamed sinner of the Gospels who used her long locks to clean Jesus’s feet with unguent. Medieval thinkers quickly identie fi d the sin of this composite Magdalene as sexual, thus developing a paradoxical figure who was at

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