The Role of Powerful Laywomen: Marie de Vignerot's Enduring Legacy
Season 4, Episode 5
Join Dr. Mary Imparato and Dr. Bronwen McShea, a Visiting Professor of History at the Augustine Institute Graduate School, historian, and author, as they discuss her upcoming new book as well as the fascinating life and legacy of Marie de Vignerot. As Cardinal Richelieu’s niece, Marie held a significant position in France’s political, religious, and cultural spheres, enduringly impacting the country’s history.
About the Host
Dr. Mary Imparato
Politics Chair, Belmont Abbey College
Dr. Mary Imparato is Assistant Professor of Politics at Belmont Abbey College where she has taught courses on the American Constitution, political philosophy, public policy, and research methods. She is primarily a political theorist with research interests in religion and politics, liberty and authority, philosophy of law, Catholic social teaching, and the thought of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. She completed her doctorate in Political Science at Rutgers University, with a dissertation centered on religious toleration in the western tradition. She holds an interdisciplinary Masters degree from the City University of New York (where she studied primarily medieval history and philosophy) as well as a Bachelors in Government from Harvard University. A native New Yorker, she currently resides in North Carolina with her husband and three children.
