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The short chronicle : a Poor Clare's account of the reformation of Geneva / Jeanne de Jussie ; edited and translated by Carrie F. Klaus.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jussie, Jeanne de, 1503-1561.
- Series:
- Other voice in early modern Europe
- The other voice in early modern Europe
- Standardized Title:
- Petite chronique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Reformation--Switzerland--Geneva--Sources.
- Reformation.
- Switzerland--Geneva.
- Geneva (Switzerland)--Church history--16th century--Sources.
- Geneva (Switzerland).
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Jeanne de Jussie (1503-61) experienced the Protestant Reformation from within the walls of the Convent of Saint Clare in Geneva. In her impassioned and engaging Short Chronicle, she offers a singular account of the Reformation, reporting not only on the larger clashes between Protestants and Catholics but also on events in her convent-devious city councilmen who lied to trusting nuns, lecherous soldiers who tried to kiss them, and iconoclastic intruders who smashed statues and burned paintings. Throughout her tale, Jussie highlights women's roles on both sides of the conflict, from the Reformed women who came to her convent in an attempt to convert the nuns to the Catholic women who ransacked the shop of a Reformed apothecary. Above all, she stresses the Poor Clares' faithfulness and the good men and women who came to them in their time of need, ending her story with the nuns' arduous journey on foot from Reformed Geneva to Catholic Annecy.
- First published in French in 1611, the full text of Jussie's Short Chronicle is translated here for an English-speaking audience for the first time, providing a fresh perspective on struggles for religious and political power in sixteenth-century Geneva and a rare glimpse at early modern monastic life.
- Contents:
- The Short Chronicle 37.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226417050
- 0226417069
- OCLC:
- 61362672
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