Les Guerrières de Dieu in the French Ursuline Missionary Archives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12622424 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heidi Keller-Lapp (University of CaliforniaSan Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 91-115 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Early Modern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1385-3783 • E-ISSN: 1570-0658 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700658-12342537 |
| OpenAlex | W2602759006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Marie de l’Incarnation’s letters and mission reports advanced a particular ideotype of the Ursuline missionary as “warrior of God” and were received and disseminated as exempla in several seventeenth-century French religious texts. One of these was an anthology entitled La Gloire de Ste. Ursule ( The Glory of St. Ursula ) ( 1656 ), a collection of summaries of French Ursuline spiritual biographies, including those from New France, authored by an unknown Jesuit. Like other biographical texts on the continent, La Gloire promoted a revised narrative of the Ursuline lineage from contemplatives in action to “ guerrières de Dieu (warriors of God)”: saintly warriors armed with heroic virtues in their combined mission of interior contemplation and active apostolate at the frontiers of local, national, and Atlantic catholicity. According to La Gloire , these femmes fortes , Amazons, Canadoises , and spiritual warriors were both mystics devoted to their interior spiritual battles and monastic discipline and christianizing and civilizing teachers, preachers, missionaries and defenders of a reformed, united, transnational Catholicism, as counterparts to their Jesuit associates. This article reveals how narratives created or revised in the French Atlantic World were received and disseminated for religio-political purposes on the continent. It illuminates the communication network between metropole and periphery and demonstrates how narratives from New France functioned in the historical context of mid-to-late seventeenth-century France
Archaeology · Art · Contemplation · Context (archaeology · Glory · Humanities · Incarnation · Literature · Mysticism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Theology · Early Modern Women Writers · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |