Marie de l'Incarnation, motherhood, and christian tradition
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dunn, Mary
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- FR 8 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- religieuzen, rooms-katholicisme, moederschap, moeder zoonrelatie, gezinnen, historisch, Frankrijk, 17e eeuw
- Description
- This book is, fundamentally, an explanation of Marie de l'Incarnation's decision to abandon her 11-year-old son 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. [Marie de l'Incarnation was born as Marie Guyart, 1599-1672]