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Monica - An Ordinary Saint (Paperback)
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Monica - An Ordinary Saint (Paperback)
Series: Women in Antiquity
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Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even
more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not
queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational
examples of virtue or vice, not Christian martyrs or ascetics, but
women of moderate status, who experienced everyday joys and sorrows
and had everyday merits and failings. Such a woman was Monica-now
Saint Monica because of her relationship with her son Augustine,
who wrote about her in the Confessions and elsewhere. Despite her
rather unremarkable life, Saint Monica has inspired a robust
controversy in academia, the Church, and the Augustine-reading
public alike: some agree with Ambrose, bishop of Milan, who knew
Monica, that Augustine was exceptionally blessed in having such a
mother, while others think that Monica is a classic example of the
manipulative mother who lives through her son, using religion to
repress his sexual life and to control him even when he seems to
escape. In Monica: An Ordinary Saint, Gillian Clark reconciles
these competing images of Monica's life and legacy, arriving at a
woman who was shrewd and enterprising, but also meek and gentle.
Weighing Augustine's discussion of his mother against other
evidence of women's lives in late antiquity, Clark achieves
portraits both of Monica individually, and of the many women like
her. Augustine did not claim that his mother was a saint, but he
did think that the challenges of everyday life required courage and
commitment to Christian principle. Monica's ordinary life, as both
he and Clark tell it, showed both. Monica: An Ordinary Saint
illuminates Monica, wife and mother, in the context of the societal
expectations and burdens that shaped her and all ordinary women.
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