The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon

The Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon PDF Author: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199841128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Book Description
The first English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Guyon describes her confinement between 1695 and 1703 in various prisons, including the dreaded Bastille, and the introduction provides a comprehensive context for the historical, literary, and theological aspects of Guyon's writing.