Although the Catholic Church kept nuns locked up in convents in order to regulate their sexuality, Jeanne de Jussie's writings shed light on some of his own experiences of violence, in addition to offering examples of stories spread by Catholics (Crawford 87). In the chronicle, Jeanne de Jussie evokes the problems of internal conflicts caused by the Reformation; many women were caught between their husbands' anger and their Catholic faith (de Jussie 95). She also described some of the violence committed by heretics against Catholics; for example, before the heretics locked the lords of Bern in an inhumanly small cell, they "vilely seized and dragged him from the pulpit and treated him harshly, so that he almost died on the spot." -field” (from Jussie 94). According to the accounts of Jeanne de Jussie, religious people on both sides of the conflict waged war against each other; she describes that “the good fathers went to fight with many other monks because it was for religion but they did not bear arms” (de Jussie 79). Women and children also incited Catholics to violence against heretics; “A lot of women. . . wore stones in their bodices to throw at the Lutherans. Along with the women, there were at least seven hundred children aged between twelve and fifteen, determined to fulfill their duty to their mother” (from