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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 served some eighteen years as superior of the first Ursuline convent in the New World. She would also maintain, over this same period, an extensive and intimate correspondence with the son she had abandoned to serve God.The Cruelest of All Mothers is, fundamentally, an explanation of Marie de l'Incarnation's decision to abandon Claude for religious life. Complicating Marie's own explication of the abandonment as a sacrifice carried out in imitation of Christ and in submission to God's will, the book situates the event against the background of early modern French family life, the marginalization of motherhood in the Christian tradition, and seventeenth-century French Catholic spirituality. Deeply grounded in a set of rich primary sources, The Cruelest of All Mothers offers a rich and complex analysis of the abandonment.

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Publié par	Fordham University Press
Date de parution	01 octobre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780823267231
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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The Crueest o A Mothers

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catholic practice in north america

se r i e s c o -e di t or s: Angea Aaimo O’Donne, Associate Director o the Francis and Ann Curran Center or American Cathoic Studies, Fordham University John C. Seitz, Assistant Proessor, Theoogy Department, Fordham University

This series aims to contribute to the growing ﬁed o Cathoic studies through the pubication o books devoted to the historica and cutura study o Cathoic practice in North America, rom the coonia period to the present. As the term “practice” suggests, the series springs rom a pressing need in the study o American Cathoicism or empirica investigations and creative exporations and anayses o the contours o Cathoic experience. In seeking to provide more comprehensive maps o Cathoic practice, this series is committed to pubishing works rom diverse American ocaes, incuding urban, suburban, and rura settings; ethnic, post-ethnic, and transnationa contexts; private and pubic sites; and seats o power as we as the margins.

se r i e s a d v i s ory b oa r d: Emma Anderson, Ottawa University Pau Contino, Pepperdine University Katheen Sprows Cummings, University o Notre Dame James T. Fisher, Fordham University Pau Mariani, Boston Coege Thomas A. Tweed, University o Texas at Austin

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The Crueest o A Mothers m a r ie d e l’in c a r n at i o n , m o t her h o o d , a nd t he c hr is t i a n t r a d i t i o n

Mary Dunn

f or dh a m u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s New York 2016

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Dunn, Mary, 1976– The crueest o a mothers : Marie de ’Incarnation, motherhood, and the Christian tradition / Mary Dunn.—First edition. pages cm.—(Cathoic practice in North America) Incudes bibiographica reerences and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-6721-7 (coth : ak. paper) 1. Mothers and sons—Reigious aspects—Cathoic Church. 2. Abandoned chidren—France—History. 3. Marie de ’Incarnation, mère, 1599–1672. 4. Martin, Caude, 1619–1696. 5. Cathoic Church—France—History—17th century. 6. France—Church history—17th century. I. Tite. BX2353.D86 2015 271'.97402—dc23 2015004708

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction 1 Expication: Representations o the Abandonment in theRelations, the Letters, and theVie 2 Expanation: Contextuaizing the Abandonment within Seventeenth-Century French Famiy Lie 3 Expanation: The Marginaization o Motherhood in the Christian Tradition 4 Expanation: Materna Hagiographies and Spirituaities o Abandonment in Seventeenth-Century France 5 Motherhood Reﬁgured: Kristeva, Materna Sacriﬁce, and the Imitation o Christ Aterword/Aterward

Notes Bibliography Index

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