Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the saint's iconography across the mountain range. Together they underscore how the Magdalen's cult and contingent imagery interacted with the environmental conditions and landscape of the Alps along late medieval routes.

Comparative insight into medieval migrations and parish devotional life

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionThe Late Medieval MagdalenImage, Faith and Place - Mary Magdalen in the AlpsResearching Mary MagdalenBook StructureChapter One: Pilgrimage Politics and Late Medieval ArtA Toll of Devotion - Mary Magdalen in the Aosta ValleyPilgrims' Progress and Experiential ObjectsArt in an Age of Magdalen FermentationScaling up the MapChapter Two: Regulating the Mountain Parish SaintSankt Magdalen in Dusch and its PaintingsA Habit of ChoiceArt and the Premonstratensian OrderImaging Mary Magdalen in a Mountain ParishLast ThingsArt and the Sacralising of the MountainsChapter Three: Networks of Devotion in BozenSankt Magdalena in Prazöll - Renewing the Parish SaintInternational Networks and the Pairing of Pilgrimage SaintsMary Magdalen and the Regional Pilgrimage ContextFamily Patronage and Networks - the von BrandisDevotional Networks and Strategic PatronageUp the Mountain with the MagdalenChapter Four: Framing Pilgrimage Practice in TyrolFraming Local HistoryThe Universal Local SaintThe Imagery of RedemptionChapter Five: Mining Devotion in the MountainsMining the Iconography of Mary Magdalen'bonum argentum de Sneberch' - Working and Praying at the CoalfaceMary Magdalen and the MinersChapter Six: Alpine Workshops and Artistic TransmissionSanta Maria Maddalena, Cusiano - History and DecorationThe Magdalen Fresco CycleArt and Artistic EnterprisePatrons and the CommissionPathways of TransmissionStock Types and TopicalityChapter Seven: Devotion and Resurrection in the AlpsMother of the ParishPicturing a New Patron SaintReconstructing the Life of Mary MagdalenGenerating FaithCradle to Grave CareInforming and Reforming the ParishesCoda: The Alps as KunstlandschaftBibliography