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From Mother to Son - The Selected Letters of Marie de l'Incarnation to Claude Martin (Hardcover)
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From Mother to Son - The Selected Letters of Marie de l'Incarnation to Claude Martin (Hardcover)
Series: AAR Religions in Translation
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Marie de l'Incarnation (1599 - 1672), renowned French mystic and
founder of the Ursulines in Canada, abandoned her son, Claude
Martin, when he was a mere eleven years old to dedicate herself
completely to a consecrated religious life.
In 1639, Marie migrated to the struggling French colony at Quebec
to found the first Ursuline convent in the New World. Over the
course of the next thirty-one years, the relationship between Marie
and Claude would take shape by means of a trans-Atlantic
correspondence in which mother and son shared advice and counsel,
concerns and anxieties, and joys and frustrations.
From Mother to Son presents annotated translations of forty-one of
the eighty-one extant full-length letters exchanged by Marie and
her son between 1640 and 1671. These letters reveal much about the
early history of New France and the spiritual itinerary of one of
the most celebrated mystics of the seventeenth century. Uniting the
letters into a coherent whole is the distinctive relationship
between an absent mother and her abandoned son, a relationship
reconfigured from flesh and blood to the written word exchanged
between professed religious united in Jesus Christ as members of
the same spiritual family.
In providing a contemporary translation of Marie's letters to
Claude, Mary Dunn renders accessible to an English-speaking
readership a rich source for the history of colonial North America,
providing a counterpoint to a narrative weighted in favor of
Plymouth Rock and the Puritans and a history of New France
dominated by the perspectives of men both religious and secular.
Dunn expertly contextualizes the correspondence within the broader
cultural, historical, intellectual, and theological currents of the
seventeenth century as well as within modern scholarship on Marie
de l'Incarnation.
From Mother to Son offers a fascinating portrait of the nature and
evolution of Marie's relationship with her son. By highlighting the
great range of their conversation, Dunn provides a window onto one
of the more intriguing and complicated stories of maternal and
filial affection in the modern Christian West.
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