 |
 |
>>Furthermore there is the classical book by Per Victor Saxer: >>Le culte de Marie-Madeleine en occident des origines a la fin du Moyen-age. >>Auxerre-Paris 1959 It might also be worth making reference to Saxer's work on the eastern tradition of Mary Magdalene: Saxer, Victor. 'Les saintes Marie Madeleine et Marie de Bethanie dans la tradition liturgique et homiletique orientale', Revue des Sciences Religieuses XXXII (1958), 1-37. Unlike the west, the Orthodox Church recognised a distinction between the 'three Marys'. This could lead to confusion on the part of western pilgrims to the Holy Land who thought they knew all about Mary Magdalene and found, when they came into contact with indigenous traditions, that they had conflated different biblical episodes and characters into one person. A good example of this is the pilgrimage of John of Wurzburg (ca.1160/5). Andrew Jotischky Department of History Lancaster University %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%