“The Cruelest of All Mothers”: Marie de l’Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Discipleship
In 1631, Marie de l’Incarnation entered the Ursuline monastery in Tours, France, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son Claude to pursue the religious life. This article examines the role Marie’s abandonment of Claude played in the relationship between mother and son as reflected in Marie’s own writ...
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Indiana University Press
2012
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Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-62 |
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