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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunn, Mary, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Catholic practice in North America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Explication : representations of the abandonment in the relations, the letters, and the vie
  • Explanation : contextualizing the abandonment within seventeenth-century French family life
  • Explanation : the marginalization of motherhood in the Christian tradition
  • Explanation : maternal hagiographies and spiritualities of abandonment in seventeenth-century France
  • Motherhood refigured : Kristeva, maternal sacrifice, and the imitation of Christ.