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- Hardcover
- 240
- Venus in sackcloth The Magdalen's origins and metamorphoses
- Marjorie M. Malvern
- English
- 17 May 2020
- 9780809307074
Free download Venus in sackcloth The Magdalen's origins and metamorphoses 105 Pure spiritual Mariham” in the Pistis Sophia from Venus to MaryAnd in tracing the further transformation of and complex attitudes toward the Magdalen from the Crusades to the twentieth century Ms Malvern adds significantly to our understanding of the conseuent shaping and transmission of the figure The enigmatic Magdalen according to the evidence presented has carried sometimes covertly the old radically dualistic religious and secular concepts into modern time.
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