...Peter Low This essay explores the peculiar character of innovation in monastic art around 1100 CE, and what specially monastic concerns may have motivated this underacknowledged thirst for invention. It focuses on the relationship between the main portal at the Cluniac abbey of Vézelay, created...

... the patronage of St. Mary Magdalene.44 They grew exponentially with the cult of Mary Magdalene, first at Vezelay, then in Provence.45 Founded by clergymen, these convents or houses reflected a male Christian ethos and its definition of female repentance. As explained by Susan Haskins, “The prostitute’s only...

... Fox on Female Monastic Reform  615 – 634 750  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.3 / 2012 Low, Peter Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art: The Case of the Main Narthex Portal at Vézelay  657 – 698 Orlemanski, Julie Jargon and the Matter of Medicine...

... in the early twelfth century and interrogates the specifically monastic concerns that may have motivated this under-­acknowledged desire for invention. His essay focuses on the relation- ship between the early twelfth-­century main portal at the Cluniac abbey of Vézelay and a number of Anglo-­Saxon...

... For a contemporary monastic chronicle, see Hugh of Poitiers, The Vézelay Chronicle, ed. John Scott and John O. Ward (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1992). The Vézelay chronicle, however, is distinctly separate from the monastic cartulary and a passio for Mary Magdalene...

... Press, 2006. viii, 436 pp.; 51 illus. $59.95. 12. Visual culture Ambrose, Kirk. The Nave Sculpture of Vézelay: The Art of Monastic Viewing. Studies and Texts, vol. 154. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Stud- ies, 2006. xv, 196 pp.; 150 black-and-white illus. $94.95. Baragli...