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Article: Women Mystics Confront the Modern World: Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) and Madame Guyon (1648-1717).(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 1999
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Marie-Florine Bruneau, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. x + 279 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 0-7914-3662-4.
Until recently, women in the colonial empires of Spain and especially France had received little attention from scholars. This is changing dramatically, as shown by these two books whose protagonists include women who spent most or all of their lives in the Americas.
Bruneau's study, informed by yet challenging the works of Michel de Certeau and Caroline Walker Bynum, examines two Frenchwomen: Marie de l'Incarnation and Madame Guyon. Both lived at a time when rationalism and positivism were making inroads against religious mysticism.
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