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The cruelest of all mothers : Marie de l'Incarnation, motherhood, and the Christian tradition /
In 1631, Marie Guyart (later, Marie de l'Incarnation) stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, into the cloister and out of the world, leaving behind the family business, her aging father and - what jars the modern reader - her 11-year-old son. 'The Cruelest of All Moth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2016.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Catholic practice in North America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1631, Marie Guyart (later, Marie de l'Incarnation) stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, into the cloister and out of the world, leaving behind the family business, her aging father and - what jars the modern reader - her 11-year-old son. 'The Cruelest of All Mothers' examines Marie's confounding decision to abandon the young Claude, situating the event within the contexts of Marie's own writings, family life in 17th-century France, the Christian tradition, and early modern French spirituality. This book takes up Marie's decision to abandon Claude as an instance of human agency, arguing that the abandonment is best understood neither as an act of submission to the will of God nor as an act of resistance against the prevailing norms of 17th-century French family life, but rather as something in between. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823267248 0823267245 |