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From Mother to Son - The Selected Letters of Marie De L''incarnation to Claude Martin

English · Hardback

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From Mother to Son is an annotated translation of forty-one of the eighty-one extant full-length letters written Marie de l'Incarnation, founder of the Ursulines in Canada, to her son, Claude Martin, between 1640 and 1671. These collected 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.

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  • Introduction

  • Letters

  • Notes



About the author

Mary Dunn is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Christianity at St. Louis University. Her research is primarily focused in seventeenth-century France and New France.

Summary

From Mother to Son is an annotated translation of forty-one of the eighty-one extant full-length letters written Marie de l'Incarnation, founder of the Ursulines in Canada, to her son, Claude Martin, between 1640 and 1671. These collected 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.

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This edition is just such a guide, with an excellent introduction informative, scholarly and well judged and thorough annotations. The translation reads well, and rises successfully to the challenge of putting its seventeenth-century French original into accessible modern English.

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