Familial and spiritual filiations in female religious “Lives” (France, seventeenth century)
Duyck, Clément
Familial and spiritual filiations in female religious “Lives” (France, seventeenth century) - 2020.
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The characters in seventeenth-century women’s religious “Lives” depend on two types of filiation, namely familial and spiritual. Discussing the theory of a providential continuity that would make of such Lives, derived from ancient and medieval hagiography, narrative processes written in advance (Certeau, Le Brun), this paper shows how the rupture with familial filiation serves as a constitutive element of spiritual filiation. Indeed, this rupture is used in the narrative as a way to shift an existence built on a familial genealogy to one that enables new filiations, through a spiritual legacy that is intended to be re-founded in, and passed on to a religious institution.
Familial and spiritual filiations in female religious “Lives” (France, seventeenth century) - 2020.
40
The characters in seventeenth-century women’s religious “Lives” depend on two types of filiation, namely familial and spiritual. Discussing the theory of a providential continuity that would make of such Lives, derived from ancient and medieval hagiography, narrative processes written in advance (Certeau, Le Brun), this paper shows how the rupture with familial filiation serves as a constitutive element of spiritual filiation. Indeed, this rupture is used in the narrative as a way to shift an existence built on a familial genealogy to one that enables new filiations, through a spiritual legacy that is intended to be re-founded in, and passed on to a religious institution.
Réseaux sociaux