Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

France: Vézelay: Abbey Church of Ste. Marie-Madeleine

GENERAL

Morris, William and  Walter Pater. Some Great  Churches in France; Three Essays. Portland, Me.: T.B. Mosher, 1905.

Porée, Charles. L'abbaye de Vézelay, Petites monographies des grands édifices de la France, Paris : H. Laurens, [1909?].

Pater, Walter, and Charles Shadwell, “Vézelay” in Miscellaneous studies; a series of essays. London, Macmillan, 1917.

Deschamps, Paul. Vézelay. Paris: Éditions Tel, 1938.

Haab, François. Vézelay.  Paris : Éditions Tel, 1938

Adhémar, Jean. Vézelay. [Paris] Éditions Tel, 1952.

Bécet, Marie. Vézelay. Paris, 1952.

Baudry , Jean et al. Bourgogne romane. [St. Leger-Vauban] Zodiaque, 1962.

Debidour, Victor Henry and Janet Le Caisne, Elian,  Vézelay, Paris : Plon, 1962.

Berlow, Rosalind Kent. “Social and Economic Aspects of the Early History of Vézelay : Ninth to Twelfth  Centuries.” Thesis (Ph. D.)--City University of New York, 1971.

Christiansen, Anton Robert,  “A Pilgrim's Progress : Vézelay” Thesis (B. Arch.)--Cornell University, 1990.

Jean-Nesmy, Claude. Vézelay: le pélerinage et la cité: inventaire de Vëzelay. Saint-Léger-Vauban: Ateliers de la Pierre-qui-Vire, 1991.

Oursel, Raymond. Lumiéres de Vézelay. Saint-Léger-Vauban: Zodiaque, France, 1993.

Morrison, Kathryn. “Vézelay, Ste Marie Madeleine”, in The Dictionary of Art. Jane Turner, ed. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1996, Vol 32, pp. 395-8.

Angheben, Marcel  et al. Le patrimoine de la Basilique de Vézelay  Charenton-le-Pont : Flohic, 1999.

Rouchon-Mouilleron, Véronique. Vézelay : The Great Romanesque Church. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1999.

Medero Navedo, J. A.; Boothby, T. E.; Smith, E. "The nave of the Madeleine of Vezelay."Engineering structures. 20, no. 1/2, (1998):p. 25.
  SOURCES   Odo of Cluny: PL CXXXIII, 713.   Pope Leo IX, 27.iv.1050: Jaffé 4213.   Saxer, Victor. Le dossier vézelien de Marie Madeleine :invention et translation des reliques en 1265-1267 : contribution à l'histoire du culte de la sainte à Vézelay à l'apogée du Moyen Age.  Brussels : Société des Bollandistes, 1975.   Monumenta Vizeliacensia: textes relatifs á l'histoire de læabbaye de Vézelay. Ed. R. B. C. Huygens. Turnhout: Brepols, 1976.   Hugh, of Poitiers, d. 1167. The Vézelay Chronicle and other Documents from MS. Auxerre  227 and Elsewhere. translated into English with notes, introduction, and accompanying material by John Scott and John O. Ward ; with supplementary essays and notes by Eugene L. Cox. Binghamton, N.Y. : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992.

The Medieval Chronicle : Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle. Edited by Erik Kooper.International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle, Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1999.

Salet, Francis. La Madeleine deVézelay:  Etude inconographique par Jean Adhémar. Melun, Librairie d'Argences, 1948.

Sazama, Kristin. “The Assertion of Monastic Spiritual and Temporal Authority in the Romanesque Sculpture of Sainte-Madeleine at Vézelay.”Thesis (Ph. D.)--Northwestern University, 1995.

Souchal, François. Vézelay.  In Bourgogne,- Nivernais Lyonnais Vol II A of Dictionnaire  des Églises de France, 1964.

Burrows, T. "Hugh of Poitiers, the 'Vezelay Chronicle' and other documents from MS.Auxerre.227 and elsewhere. With notes, introduction, and accompanying material." Parergon 15 (1): (July 1997)  pp. 253-255.
 

PILGRIMAGE AND CULT OF ST MARY MAGDALEN

Faillon, E.-M. Monuments inédits sur l'apostolat de Sainte Marie-Madeleine en Provence ed. J. Migne, 2 vols. Paris, 1848.

id., "La légende de sainte Marie-Madeleine," Annales du Midi, 5 (1893), 1-33, repr. in Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule, Paris, 1907, I, 310-44.

Pissier, A. Le culte de Sainte Marie-Madeleine a Vézelay. [Paris : L. Demoulin], 1923.

Hansel, H. Magdalenenkult und Magdalenenlegende, Cologne : Görresgesellschaft, 1936.

Garth, Helen Meredith.  Saint Mary Magdalene in Medieval Literature, Baltimore, 1950.

Janssen, M. "Maria Magdalena in der abendländischen Kunst, Ikonographie der Heilige von Anfang  bis im 16. Jahrhundert, " Diss., Frankfurt 1961.

Ortenberg, Veronica. “Le culte de sainte Marie Madeleine dans l'Angleterre anglo-saxonne”. Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen Age, 104, no. 1 (1992): 13-35

Haskins, Susan.  Mary Magdalen, Myth and Metaphor, London, 1993.

Clemens, Neal Raymond, “The Establishment of the Cult of Mary Magdalen in Provence, 1279-1543.”: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1997.

Pinto-Mathieu, E.   Marie-Madeleine dans la littérature du Moyen-Age, Paris, 1997.

Jansen, Katherin Ludwig.  The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999.

Abou-El-Hai, Barbra. "The Audiences for the Medieval Cult of Saints." Gesta, Vol. 30, No. 1. (1991):  pp. 3-15.

SCULPTURE

Lefèvre, L. Eugène. Le Symbolisme du tympan de Vézelay. [N.p.] 1906.

Porter, A. Kingsley. Romanesque Sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads, 10 vols.  Boston: Marshall Jones, 1923, repr. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1969.

Aubert, Marcel, and  Boinet Amédée. La Bourgogne-la sculpture.  Paris, Les Éditions G. van Oest, 1930.

Bancherear, J. “Travaux d’apiculture sur un chapeau de Vézelay”, Bulletin monumental, 77 (1913): 403-11.

Katzenellenbogen, A. “The Central Tympanum at Vézelay: its Encyclopedic Meaning and its Relation to the First Crusade”. Art Bulletin, 26 (1944): 141-51.

Salet, Francis, La Madeleine de Vézelay. Étude iconographique par Jean Adhémar, Melun: Librairie d'Argences, 1948.

Diemer, Peter. Stil und Ikonographie der Kapitellen von Ste.-Madeleine, Vézelay, [S.l. : s.n.], 1975

Forsyth, Ilene H. "The Ganymede Capital at Vezelay." Gesta, Vol. 15, No. 1/2, Essays in Honor of Sumner McKnight Crosby. (1976), pp. 241-246.

Taylor, M. “The Pentecost at Vézelay," Gesta, 19 (1980): 9-15.

Saulnier, Lydwine. La sculpture oubliée de Vézelay: catalogue du musée lapidaire. Genéve: Droz, 1984.

Varady, Adrienne. “The Tympanum of Vézelay : a New Interpretation.” Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 1986.

Cone, John Adams. “Flame-haired demons from three Romanesque Burgundian capitals at Vézelay and Autun : their iconographic relationship to personifications of the vices from the illuminated manuscripts of Prudentius' Psychomachia”. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Georgia, 1986.

Feldman, Judy Scott. “The Narthex Portal at Vézelay: Art and Monastic Self-image.” Dissertation (Ph. D.) University of Texas at Austin, 1986.

Loos-Noji, Pamela. “Temptation and redemption: a monastic life in stone.” In Equally in God's Image: women in the Middle Ages. Ed. Holloway, Wright and Bechtold. New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Paris, London: 1990. pp. 220-232.

McManamy, Kevin William. “The Demonic Capitals at Vézelay,” Thesis (M.A.)- University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1993.

Angheben, Marcel. “Le combat du guerrier contre un animal fantastique: á propos de trois chapiteaux de Vézeley”. Bulletin monumental, 152, no. 3, (1994): 245-256.

Salet, Francis. Cluny et Vézelay : l'œuvre des sculpteurs. Paris : Société française d'archéologie, 1995.

Huys-Clavel, Viviane. La Madeleine de Vézelay :cohérence du décor sculpté de la nef. [Chambéry] : Editions Comp'act, 1996.

Beutler, C. ‘Das Tympanon zu Vézeley: Programm, Planswechsel und Datierung, Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, 29, (1997): 7-30.

Frandon, Veronique. “Du multiple a l'Un. Approche iconographique du calendrier et des saisons du portail de l'eglise abbatiale de Vézelay.” Gesta. 37, no. 1 (1998): 74-88.

Angheben, M.. "Revelation-XXI-XXII and the iconography of the central portal of the nave of the church at Vezelay." CAH CIVILIS MEDIEVAL, no. 41. ( July-August 1998):  pp. 209-240.

Ambrose, Kirk Thomas. “Romanesque Vézelay : the Art of Monastic Contemplation” Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1999.

Ambrose, Kirk. “A Visual Pun at Vézelay: Gesture and Meaning on a Capital Representing the Fall of Man,” Traditio. 55 (2000): 105-25.

Ambrose, Kirk. “The fall of Simon Magus on a capital at Vézelay” Gazette des Beaux-Arts vol. 137 no. 1587 (2001): 151-66.

Low, Peter. “Envisioning Faith and Structuring Lay Experience the Narthex Portal Sculptures of Sainte-Madeleine de Vézelay.” Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 2001.

Low, Peter, "You Who Once Were Far Off": Enlivening Scripture in the Main Portal at Vézelay”, The Art Bulletin. 85, no. 3 (2003): 469-90.