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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon; Ronney Mourad; Dianne Guenin-Lelle |
| ISBN: | 9780199841127 0199841128 |
| OCLC Number: | 711989019 |
| Notes: | Translated from the French. |
| Description: | vi, 159 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Vincennes -- Vaugirard -- Missing evidence -- The confessor -- The false letter -- The Bastille -- The abyss -- Deliverance. |
| Series Title: | AAR religion in translation. |
| Other Titles: | Récits de captivité. |
| Responsibility: | [translated by] Ronney Mourad, Dianne Guenin-Lelle. |
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<br>"The aristocratic French mystic Madame Guyon exercised remarkable influence among both Catholics and Protestants, not simply in her lifetime (1648-1717) but throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The recent discovery of her 'prison narratives' has opened a new window into Guyon's life, and this lucid introduction and English translation by Mourad and Guenin-Lelle beautifully present a vivid narrative from one of the pivotal figures of modern Christian spirituality." <br>-- W. Clark Gilpin, Margaret E. Burton Professor, Emeritus, The University of Chicago <br><p><br>"The author of the most famously abundant mystic writing of the seventeenth century here defends herself with elegant precision against the charges leveled by the most powerful men, lay and religious, of Louis XIV's monarchy. Not precisely a mystic text, the Prison Narratives are an extraordinary document of resistance, as well as moving testimony to the threat Guyon's message of spiritual autonomy posed to the hardening institutional structures of her day." <br>-- Nicholas D. Paige, author of Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France<br><p><br> Read more...