The Cruelest of All Mothers. Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition.
Mary Dunn
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Hardback. Abandonment defined thirty-three years of correspondence between Marie de l'Incarnation and the son she had left behind in favor of religious life Series: Catholic Practice in North America. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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 him joyfully.” Claude organized a band of schoolboys to storm the convent, begging for his mother’s return. Eight years later, Marie made her way to Quebec, where over the course of the next thirty-three years she opened the first school for Native American girls, translated catechisms into indigenous languages, and ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Catholic Practice in North America
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823267217
SKU
V9780823267217
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About Mary Dunn
Mary Dunn is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern Christianity at St. Louis University. Her first book, From Mother to Son: Selected Letters from Marie de l’Incarnation to Claude Martin, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. She has also published articles in the Canadian Historical Review, Quebec Studies, and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, among other ... Read more
Reviews for The Cruelest of All Mothers. Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition.
"The Cruelest of Mothers is a unique book, unlike anything I have read before. It defies disciplinary or methodological boundaries. On the contrary, like a Russian nesting doll, it contains layers within layers: being at once a deeply personal, confessional work, a historical analysis, a theological work, and a long and profound meditation upon subjectivity and scholarship."
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