Reimaging the Magdalene

Feminism, Art, and the Counter-Reformation

Dr. Siobhán Jolley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2026
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-71430-5 (ISBN)

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This book offers a new, intersectional feminist approach to utilising and interpreting the visual reception of Mary Magdalene. Through employment of Liberative Reception Criticism, which develops traditional reception theory in line with liberative hermeneutics, via the insights of intersectionality as critical theory, Siobhán Jolley provides a novel means of analysing how women, and particularly the Magdalene, are imaged in Christian tradition.

Knowledge of both the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene and her cultural reception continue to be dominated by long-discredited ideas about her life and sexuality, which bear the hallmarks of their development under patriarchy. Through close study of relevant biblical texts and extracanonical accounts, and a comprehensive survey of the Magdalene’s presentation in the Italian art of the Counter-Reformation, Jolley demonstrates that the patriarchal portrayal of the Magdalene as a sexualised penitent and mournful witness to the resurrection is sustained by its mythic attachment to biblical text. Rather than adopting the same tropes uncritically, we are invited to look again at artworks and related texts in order to explore what happens when the influence of patriarchy is actively and intersectionally resisted. Ultimately, the Magdalene is transformed from a reductive and patriarchally mythologised figure to a multidimensional character, who is relatable and liberative as an exemplar.

Siobhán Jolley is Lecturer in Christian Studies at the University of Manchester, and Visiting Lecturer in Christianity and the Arts at King’s College, London. From 2022-2024, she was the Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Research Fellow in Art and Religion at the National Gallery.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Liberating the Magdalene
Part 1: Imaging the Magdalene
Chapter Two: Mythologising the Magdalene
Chapter Three: Painting the Magdalene
Part 2: Reimaging the Magdalene
Chapter Four: The Power of Art and Image
Chapter Five: Gallery 1: Decentring ‘Decency’
Chapter Six: Gallery 2: Confronting Trauma
Chapter Seven: Gallery 3: Apostola Ecclesiae
Chapter Eight: Gallery 4: The Magdalene from the Margins
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.8.2026
Reihe/Serie	Scriptural Traces
Zusatzinfo	14 bw illus
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-567-71430-6 / 0567714306
ISBN-13	978-0-567-71430-5 / 9780567714305
Zustand	Neuware