The Cruelest of All Mothers : : Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition / / Mary Dunn.
In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie concluded, "God was dearer to me than all that. Leaving him therefore in His hands, I bid adieu to hi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Catholic Practice in North America
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Explication: Representations of the Abandonment in the Relations, the Letters, and the Vie
- 2. Explanation: Contextualizing the Abandonment within Seventeenth- Century French Family Life
- 3. Explanation: The Marginalization of Motherhood in the Christian Tradition
- 4. Explanation: Maternal Hagiographies and Spiritualities of Abandonment in Seventeenth- Century France
- 5. Motherhood Refi gured: Kristeva, Maternal Sacrifi ce, and the Imitation of Christ
- Afterword/Afterward
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index