La Passion selon Juette

In twelfth-century Huy, a prosperous town on the Meuse near Liège, Juette is the daughter of a wealthy family, kept almost shut in at home as she waits to be married at thirteen. On rare trips to the market she picks up the anger growing against a well-fed clergy, at a time when the Cathars and other dissenters challenge the Church. Her one confidant is Hugues de Floreffe, a young cleric drawn to a more open, living faith. Married off, forced into sex and then motherhood, she comes to see every man as capable of the worst, and even Hugues is kept at a distance. Widowed at eighteen, she joins other women caring for lepers, and her visions soon win her sway over the town. She and Hugues take turns telling the story, drawn from the life he really wrote of her.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

232 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Belgium, 12th century

First published

2007 by Grasset

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9782246615712 (original)