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Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene [traditionally Greek=of Magdala ], Christian saint, a woman widely venerated in Christendom. The name Madeleine is a French form of Magdalene. She appears in the New Testament as a woman whose evil spirits are cast out by Jesus, as a watcher at the Cross, as an attendant at Jesus' b... Read more
Mary
Mary in the New Testament. 1 Mary , the Virgin. 2 Mary Magdalene . 3 Wife of Cleophas . 4 Mary of Bethany, sister of Lazarus and Martha. She sat at Jesus' feet while Martha served. She has come to symbolize the life of contemplative love of God. Some identify her with St. Mary Magdalen. ... Read more
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni , 1708-87, Italian painter. Batoni studied and worked in Rome, learning much from the work of Corregio and Raphael. His paintings tend toward the neoclassical, a style echoing that of Mengs. Among his notable works are The Education of Achilles (Uffizi), Aeneas and His Fami... Read more
Arthur Christopher Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson 1862-1925, English author; eldest son of Archbishop Benson . He was master at Eton (1885-1903) and at Magdalene College, Cambridge (1915-25). His works include poetry; novels; essays, notably From a College Window (1902); critical studies; and biographies of his father ... Read more
Carlo Dolci
Carlo Dolci , 1616-86, Florentine painter. Among his best-known paintings are the heads and half-figures of Jesus and the Mater Dolorosa, in which he emphasized expressions of suffering and sorrow. His works are best studied in Florence in the Uffizi and Pitti galleries and the Corsini Palace. Among... Read more
George Edmund Street
George Edmund Street 1824-81, English architect. One of the foremost champions of the Gothic revival, he did much church work, including St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington, London; St. James the Less, Westminster; St. Paul's American Church in Rome; and restorations to the Bristol Cathedral and to Chri... Read more
William Waynflete
William Waynflete , 1395?-1486, English prelate and lord chancellor. He was master of Winchester College before 1429, and in 1443 he became provost of the newly founded Eton College. In 1447 he became bishop of Winchester. Soon afterward he received patents to found a hall at Oxford for the study of... Read more
Henry Dunster
Henry Dunster c.1612-1659, first president of Harvard, b. Lancashire, England, educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge (M.A., 1634). He emigrated to New England in 1640 and was almost at once (Aug. 27, 1640) appointed president of the new college. He formulated its rules and patterned its procedur... Read more
Sir John Carew Eccles
Sir John Carew Eccles , 1903-97, Australian neurophysiologist. He was educated at the Univ. of Melbourne and at Magdalene College, Oxford. He was director (1937-44) of the Kanematsu Research Institute of Sydney Hospital and taught at the Univ. of Otago in New Zealand and at the Australian National U... Read more
Gaudenzio Ferrari
Gaudenzio Ferrari , c.1480-1546, Italian painter, one of the leading representatives of the Lombard school. He worked chiefly in the churches of Varallo (N Piedmont), Vercelli, and Milan and produced many paintings, most of them now in the galleries of Lombardy and Piedmont. At its best his art is c... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Magdalen"

Magdalen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Magdalen see Mary Magdalene .
Magdalen Islands
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Magdalen Islands or Îles-de-la-Madeleine , group of nine main islands and numerous islets (1991 pop. 13,991), Que...
Madeleine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Madeleine [Fr.,=Magdalen, i.e., Mary Magdalen], large church of Paris, in the Place de la Madeleine. It was originally planned by J. A. Gabriel as a part of his layout for the Place de la Concorde , the location being selected so...
J. R. R. Tolkien
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of Anglo-Saxon, Tolkien became friends with a fellow of Magdalen College, C. S. Lewis. They shared an intense enthusiasm...was a weekly meeting held in Lewis's sitting-room at Magdalen, at which works-in-progress were read aloud and discussed...
John Strachey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...dutifully followed the family tradition and studied at Oxford (Magdalen College, where he was known, formally, as Evelyn) and took...his father. At Oxford, Strachey also participated in the Magdalen College Dramatic Society as an actor and playwright. He portrayed...
Eccles, John C.
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...Oxford University. In September 1925, Eccles began studies at Magdalen College, Oxford. As he had done at Melbourne, Eccles excelled...from 1932 to 1934. During this period, he also held posts at Magdalen College as tutor and demonstrator in physiology. The research...
Collins, (William) Wilkie
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...His portrayal of attractive but transgressive women such as Magdalen Vanstone in No Name and Lydia Gwilt in Armadale , was particularly...theatrical adaptations of his novels: Man and Wife and The New Magdalen , were produced in 1873. The only play for which he is now...
Peter Brian Medawar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He was educated at Marlborough College and subsequently at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied zoology and comparative...Oxford, where he became a university demonstrator and fellow of Magdalen College. During World War II Medawar investigated the repair...
Ivor Armstrong Richards
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Cheshire. He was educated at Clifton College in Bristol and Magdalen College in Cambridge. In 1922 he became a lecturer in English...science at Cambridge and four years later was made a fellow of Magdalen. He had collaborated with C. K. Ogden and Charles Woods...
Thomas Wolsey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...statesman and prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Early Career Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, Wolsey served for a while as master of the Magdalen College school. He was ordained a priest in 1498. In 1507 he entered the service...

Dictionary entries related to "Magdalen"

Magdalen, the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Magdalen, the St Mary Magdalen ; also called the Magdalene . The name comes, in late Middle English...sanctity by repentance and faith; from this come the archaic uses of magdalen to mean a reformed prostitute and a house for reformed prostitutes...
magdalen
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology magdalen reformed prostitute XVII; home for the reformation of prostitutes XVIII. From the Magdalen (XIV), after (O)F. la Madeleine — ecclL. (Maria) Magdalēna , -lēnē — Gr. (Maria...
Mary Magdalen
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Mary Magdalen The leader of a group of women who supported Jesus in his itinerant ministry...been much modern speculation about the relation between Jesus and Mary Magdalen, but this says more about the authors' imagination than about the biblical...
Magdalen
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Magdalen (follower of Jesus): see MARY MAGDALENE .
Mary Magdalen(e)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Mary Magdalen(e). A follower of Jesus out of whom he cast seven devils, who ministered to him in Galilee (Luke 8. 2). She remained close...
noli me tangere
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable noli me tangere in the Vulgate (John 20:17), the words of the newly-risen Jesus warning Mary Magdalen ‘do not touch me’, now used for a painting representing the appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalen at the sepulchre.
Hume-Rothery, William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...therefore discharged from the army and subsequently entered Magdalen College, Oxford, where (following the influence of his Cheltenham...which he received his London Ph.D. degree. Returning to Magdalen in December 1925, he stated that he proposed “ to...
Novello, Ivor
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...British. Born: David Ivor Davies in Cardiff, Wales, 15 January 1893. Education: Attended Magdalen College Choir School, Oxford, and chorister of Magdalen College, 1905–11; studied composition with Dr. Brewer, Gloucester. Career...
maudlin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...mawdlen ) drunk XVI. attrib. use of Maudlin , ME. Maudele(y)n (XIV) — (O)F. Madelaine — ecclL. Magdalēna MAGDALEN . The reference to tears comes from pictures in which the Magdalen is shown weeping.
Cottingham, Lewis Nockalls
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (1840–3). He refitted Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford (1830–2), virtually...scholarly architects working in the Gothic style, and his work at Magdalen College, Oxford, is very fine for its date. Bibliography...

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The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages.
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in...fascinating study explores the story of Mary Magdalen, a "shadowy gospel figure" who in...considerable interest in the medieval Magdalen by a variety of scholars, art historians...
No redress for residents Magdalen laundries
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 9/18/2009; ; 700+ words ; FORMER RESIDENTS of Magdalen laundries are not eligible for compensation...Education Batt O'Keeffe has said. "The Magdalen laundries were privately-owned and...State did not refer individuals to the Magdalen laundries nor was it complicit in referring...
Education in Early Tudor England. Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480-1540.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; Nicholas Orme. Education in Early Tudor England. Magdalen College Oxford and Its School, 1480-1540. (Magdalen College Occasional Paper, 4.) Oxford: Magdalen College, 1998. xii + 84 pp. [pounds]8. ISBN: 0-9513747...
Performing Artist Magdalen Hsu-Li comes to Metro State
Newspaper article from: Asian Pages; 2/28/2000; 593 words ; ...Pages 02-28-2000 Performing Artist Magdalen Hsu-Li Comes to Metro State On Saturday...University and Augsburg College will host Magdalen Hsu-Li, Asian American music artist...discussion will follow the performance. Magdalen is a pioneer among Asian-American women...
Mary Magdalen and the Kings of France: Susan Haskins suggests that the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and Dan Brown, who famously faced each in court earlier this year, are guilty of the same thing--writing bad fiction.(CROSS CURRENT)
Magazine article from: History Today; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...dynasty was. And they 'know' that Mary Magdalen apparently married Jesus, and bore his...Sophia, Greek for wisdom, and Mary Magdalen's alter ego in the Pistis Sophia...texts of the Gospel of Mary, where Mary Magdalen is described as being loved by Jesus...
Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor.
Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry; 12/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...least characteristic component, Mary Magdalen. The newly created being, made a saint...fiction, even a ballet. The false Magdalen turned up in paintings by Titian and...wipe his head. Luke 8 introduces Mary Magdalen by name as a quite different sort of...
The Magdalen Hospital and the Fortunes of Whiggish Sentimentality in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain: "Well-Grounded" Exemplarity vs. "Romantic" Exceptionality
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...that the establishment of the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes, on...relationship between sentimentality and the Magdalen House. The adjective "sentimental...essay is first that the founding of the Magdalen Hospital should be read as the cultural...
The Magdalen Hospital and the fortunes of whiggish sentimentality in mid-eighteenth-century Britain: "well-grounded" exemplarity vs. "romantic" exceptionality.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...that the establishment of the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes, on...relationship between sentimentality and the Magdalen House. The adjective "sentimental...essay is first that the founding of the Magdalen Hospital should be read as the cultural...
The story of a shame.(Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; JAMES M. SMITH Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture...considered at risk for promiscuity, in Magdalen asylums administered by religious...James Smith's admirable Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation 's. Architecture...
Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...1017/S0009640708001364 Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture...documentaries, and monuments that brought these Magdalen laundries into the public arena. Smith...acknowledge its complicity in Ireland's Magdalen scandal and to respond by providing redress...