The Short Chronicle: A Poor Clare's Account of the Reformation of Geneva

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University of Chicago Press, 2007 M11 1 - 208 páginas
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 by foot from Reformed Geneva to Catholic Annecy.

First published in French in 1611, 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.

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Volume Editors Introduction
1
Volume Editors Bibliography
29
Note on Translation
35
The Short Chronicle
37
Series Editors Bibliography
189
Index
207
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Página xiv - Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Página 160 - For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
Página 70 - Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
Página 70 - And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
Página 41 - And he opened The bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke Of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason Of the smoke of the pit.
Página 55 - Then he commanded them all to sit down by companies upon the green grass. "So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. 41And taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples to set before the people; and he divided the two fish among them all.
Página 90 - Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
Página 125 - Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.
Página 125 - And I tell you, every one who acknowledges me before men, the Son of man also will acknowledge before the angels of God; ' but he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

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Carrie F. Klaus is assistant professor of modern languages at DePauw University.

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