Reconstructing early modern religious lives: the exemplary and the mundane
When the first readers of L’Histoire de la vie et moeurs de Marie Tessonnière (1650) turned past the title page, what did they hope to find? The text is described at the beginning of the dedicatory epistle as “Cét ouvrage de Devotion” (de la Riviere a2), signalling that the work was intended to prov...
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| Published in | E-rea : Revue d'etudes anglophones Vol. 18; no. 1 |
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| Main Authors | , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone
15.12.2020
Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) |
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| Summary: | When the first readers of L’Histoire de la vie et moeurs de Marie Tessonnière (1650) turned past the title page, what did they hope to find? The text is described at the beginning of the dedicatory epistle as “Cét ouvrage de Devotion” (de la Riviere a2), signalling that the work was intended to provide spiritual guidance for the reader as well as offering a record of the life of Tessonnière herself. In its dual purpose, this was a very typical religious biography. In common with funeral sermo... |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/erea.11202 |