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“Always toward absent lovers, love's tide stronger flows": Spiritual lovesickness in the letters of Anne-Marie Martinozzi
Hillman, Jennifer
Hillman, Jennifer
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2015-06-01
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In February 1654 Anne-Marie Martinozzi, a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, married Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti. The newly-weds went on to experience almost concurrent pious conversions that would transform their social behaviour for the remainder of their lives. Shortly afterwards, Armand was posted to Northern Italy as commander of the French army, necessitating a six-month estrangement of the couple between May and October 1657. This article explores a corpus of “love letters” penned by the princess during this separation. It argues that Anne-Marie not only claimed to be suffering from “melancholy” as a result of her separation from her lover and spouse, but that she also constructed an image of herself as spiritually lovesick on account of her deprivation from her mentor and confidant. In doing so, this article sheds light on the centrality of co-penitents to the direction of spiritual lives in the aftermath of a pious conversion.
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Hillman, J. (2015). “Always toward absent lovers, love's tide stronger flows": Spiritual lovesickness and melancholy in the letters of Anne-Marie Martinozzi. Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques, 41(2), 70-87. DOI: 10.3167/hrrh.2015.410206
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Berghahn Journals
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10.3167/hrrh.2015.410206
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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques. To access the final edited and published work see http://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/historical-reflections/41/2/hrrh410206.xml
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0315-7997
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1939-2419