Title The cruelest of all mothers : Marie de l'Incarnation, motherhood, and Christian tradition / Mary Dunn

Edition First edition Published New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource Series Catholic practice in North America Contents 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 Summary Abandonment defined thirty-three years of correspondence between Marie de l'Incarnation and the son she had left behind in favor of religious life Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Marie de l'Incarnation, mère, Saint, 1599-1672 Martin, Claude, 1619-1696. SUBJECT Marie de l'Incarnation, mère, Saint, 1599-1672 fast Martin, Claude, 1619-1696 fast Subject Catholic Church -- France -- History -- 17th century Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century. SUBJECT Catholic Church fast Subject Mothers and sons -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Abandoned children -- France -- History RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations. Mothers and sons -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church Abandoned children SUBJECT France -- Church history -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051179 Subject France Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780823267248 0823267245 9780823267231 0823267237

  Permalink