© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���5 | doi � �. ��63/9789004305�06_0�� CHAPTER 9 Conceptual Eclecticism and Ethical Prescription in Early Modern Jesuit Discourses about Affects: Suárez and Caussin on Maternal Love Raphaële Garrod In recent years, the history of emotions has supplemented the social history of the family and the intellectual history of education by paying attention to the household and to the classroom as affective communities.1 This emerging historiographical field has thus contributed to a reappraisal of the Annales school’s take on these topics, partly by revitalising its agenda. The heated and ideologically loaded critique of Philippe Ariès’s L’Enfant et la vie familiale sous l’Ancien Régime, launched in the 1980s in social history, has changed the course of the ‘Histoire des mentalités’ and impacted the works of subsequent genera- tions of historians of the Annales school, from George Duby to Arlette Farge. This critique still informs the cultural and intellectual history of the notion of childhood in the early modern period, even if its conceptual outlines have now been established and constitute a new historiographical orthodoxy in the field.2 This chapter investigates the other side of the intellectual history of early modern childhood, namely early modern motherhood. While early modern mothering has been a lasting subject of enquiry for demographic, social and literary historians, its intellectual history still remains to be written.3 In this 1  Philippa Maddern, “How Children were Supposed to Feel; How Children Felt: England 1350–1550,” in Childhood and Emotion across Cultures, 1450–1800, eds. Claudia Jarzebowski and Thomas Max Safley (London: Routledge, 2013), 121–40. For a domestic history of emo- tions in the household at large, see Susan Broomhall, ed., Emotions in the Household 1200–1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). 2  See Albrecht Classen, ed., Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2005). 3  Early modern motherhood has been investigated in gender studies, cultural and literary history, and demographic history. The seminal and controversial work in cultural history is Elisabeth Badinter, L’Amour en plus: histoire de l’amour maternel: 17 è –20 è siècles (Paris: Flammarion, 1980). See also Arlette Farge and Natalie Zemon-Davis, eds., Histoire des Femmes, XVIe–XVIIe siècles (Paris: Plon, 1991), 46–69; Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, “Famille urbaines et maternité consciente au XVIII e siècle: Reims entre Genève et Rouen,” in Familles, Parenté 180-196_BROOMHALL_F6.indd 180 7/10/2015 9:23:13 AM