The Making of the Magdalen : Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages / / Katherine Ludwig Jansen

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248009003316
• Autore: Jansen Katherine Ludwig <1957-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• ISBN: 1-4008-4388-X
• Edizione: [1st pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 389 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 274/.05
• Soggetti: Christian hagiography - History - To 1500; Sermons, Medieval - Italy - History and criticism; Sermons, Medieval - France - History and criticism; Spiritual life - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500; Women in Christianity - France - Provence - History - To 1500; Preaching - France - Provence - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500; Women in Christianity - Italy - History - To 1500; Preaching - Italy - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500; Provence (France) Church history; Italy Church history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Transcription, Translation, and Names -- Introduction -- One. "In Memory of Her": From History to Legend -- Part One. The Mendicant Magdalen -- Two. The Vita Apostolica -- Three. The Vita Activa -- Four. The Vita Contemplativa -- Part Two: The Wages of Sin -- Five. "Vanity of Vanities, All Is Vanity" -- Six. "There Was a Sinner in the City" -- Part Three. Do Penance -- Seven. The Exemplar of Perfect Penance -- Part Four. Responses -- Eight. Responses to the Scriptural Saint -- Nine. Responses to the Legendary Saint -- Ten. In the Shadow of the Virgin -- Eleven. The House of Anjou: A Royal Response -- Twelve. "In Memory of Her": From Legend to History -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Unpublished Primary ; Sources -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Analyzing previously unpublished sermons, Katherine Jansen uses the lens of medieval preaching to examine the mendicant friars' transformation of Mary Magdalen, a shadowy gospel figure, into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.

China's program for science and technology modernization : implications for American competitiveness / / prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission ; Micah Springut, Stephen Schlaikjer, and David Chen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910700835803321
• Autore: Springut Micah
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Arlington, VA : , : CENTRA Technology, Inc., , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (142 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
• Soggetti: Science and state - China; Technology and state - China; Military-industrial complex - China; Semiconductor industry - China; Nuclear industry - China; Nanostructured materials industry - China; Technology transfer; Military-industrial complex; Nanostructured materials industry; Nuclear industry; Science and state; Semiconductor industry; Technology and state; China
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "The information in this report is current as of January 2011"--Page 1.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Commission asked CENTRA to 1) examine and assess national-level programs from the 1980s to the present; 2) assess linkages between China's science policy and its industrial policy; 3) assess the methods commonly employed by the PRC to support its scientific modernization through interactions with the United States and other ; Western entities; and 4) analyze identifiable policy linkages between the Chinese government's broader science and technology efforts and the capacities of China's defense-industrial complex. The report addresses the implications for US competitiveness by speculating on the potential for PRC science policies and programs to promote the development of an internationally-competitive national innovation system. Case studies on the semiconductor, nuclear energy, and nanotechnology sectors in China address these questions in areas relevant to the Commission's interests, while avoiding overlaps with previous and ongoing USCC research.