This essay examines Francis de Sales’s Introduction to the Devout Life through the framework of caregiving. It also uses de Sales’s correspondence with two elite women, Jeanne de Chantal and Marie Brûlart, to demonstrate how de Sales’s guidance for laity was put into practice. Exploring women that yearned for a richer spiritual yet also had extensive caregiving obligations that did not allow for complete withdrawal from the secular world, reveals the increased labor these women faced. Women could not neglect household and family to spend more time in prayer and devotional practices. Caregiving duties were ongoing for most women of Early Modern Europe and continue today. Exploring how caring was viewed as part of women’s obligations as Christians, highlights the often-hidden labor of women.

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培养和关怀？

这篇文章考察了弗朗西斯·德·塞莱斯的虔诚生活简介通过护理框架。它还利用德·萨勒斯与两位精英女性珍妮·德·尚塔尔和玛丽·布鲁拉特的通信来展示德·萨勒斯对俗人的指导是如何付诸实践的。探索那些渴望更丰富的精神生活，同时又承担着广泛的照顾义务，不允许完全脱离世俗世界的女性，揭示了这些女性面临的劳动增加。妇女不能忽视家庭和家庭，花更多的时间进行祈祷和灵修活动。现代早期欧洲的大多数女性都在承担照顾责任，并且一直持续到今天。探索如何将照顾视为女性基督徒义务的一部分，突显了女性经常隐藏的劳动。