Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon

by Dianne Guenin-Lelle and Jeanne Guyon

Book Overview

This book presents the first-ever English translation of the Prison Narratives written by the seventeenth-century French mystic and Quietist, Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717). Although she was marginalized and ignored by French historians for two centuries after her death, Guyon became a major figure in the development of transatlantic Protestant spirituality in the eighteenth century, and her writings have remained popular among English-speaking audiences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199841128
• ISBN13: 9780199841127
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"