Description: Cruelest of All Mothers : Marie De L'incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition, Hardcover by Dunn, Mary, ISBN 0823267210, ISBN-13 9780823267217, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 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, th 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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Book Title: Cruelest of All Mothers : Marie De L'incarnation, Motherhood, and
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Cruelest of All Mothers : Marie De L'incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Spirituality, Children's Studies, Christian Church / History, Christianity / Catholic, Religious, Parenting / Motherhood, Women's Studies, Clergy
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Subject Area: Family & Relationships, Religion, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Mary Dunn
Series: Catholic Practice in North America Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
