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- catalog abstract ""In Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time. The first is to the history of divorce. The second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva--an institution designed to control in all its variety the behavior of the entire population--which was established at Calvin's insistence in 1541. This mandate came shortly after the city officially adopted Protestantism in 1536, a time when divorce became legally possible for the first time in centuries. Robert Kingdon illustrates the changes that accompanied the earliest Calvinist divorces by examining in depth a few of the most dramatic cases and showing how divorce affected real individuals. He considers first, and in the most detail, divorce for adultery, the best-known grounds for divorce and the best documented. He also covers the only other generally accepted grounds for these early divorces--desertion. The second contribution of the book, to show the work of the Consistory of Geneva, is a first step toward a fuller study of the institution. Kingdon has supervised the first accurate and complete transcription of the twenty-one volumes of registers of the Consistory and has made the first extended use of these materials, as well as other documents that have never before been so fully utilized."--amazon.ca.".
- catalog contributor b7351216.
- catalog coverage "Geneva (Switzerland) Church history.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""In Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time. The first is to the history of divorce. The second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva--an institution designed to control in all its variety the behavior of the entire population--which was established at Calvin's insistence in 1541. This mandate came shortly after the city officially adopted Protestantism in 1536, a time when divorce became legally possible for the first time in centuries. Robert Kingdon illustrates the changes that accompanied the earliest Calvinist divorces by examining in depth a few of the most dramatic cases and showing how divorce affected real individuals. He considers first, and in the most detail, divorce for adultery, the best-known grounds for divorce and the best documented. He also covers the only other generally accepted grounds for these early divorces--desertion. The second contribution of the book, to show the work of the Consistory of Geneva, is a first step toward a fuller study of the institution. Kingdon has supervised the first accurate and complete transcription of the twenty-one volumes of registers of the Consistory and has made the first extended use of these materials, as well as other documents that have never before been so fully utilized."--amazon.ca.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-209) and index.".
- catalog description "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The institutional matrix -- The Pierre Ameaux case: divorce for adultery and blasphemy -- The Antoine Calvin case: divorce for adultery -- The Jean Bietrix case: forced reconciliation -- Death for adultery -- The Galeazzo Caracciolo case: divorce for religious desertion -- The rationale for divorce: Theodore Beza's treatise.".
- catalog extent "ix, 214 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Adultery and divorce in Calvin's Geneva.".
- catalog identifier "0674005201 (hard : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "067400521X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Adultery and divorce in Calvin's Geneva.".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard historical studies ; 118".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard historical studies ; v. 118".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Adultery and divorce in Calvin's Geneva.".
- catalog spatial "Geneva (Switzerland) Church history.".
- catalog spatial "Switzerland Geneva".
- catalog subject "261.8/3589/0949451 20".
- catalog subject "Adultery Switzerland Geneva History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Divorce Religious aspects Reformed Church History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Divorce Switzerland Geneva History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "HQ811 .K48 1995".
- catalog subject "Reformed Church Switzerland Geneva Doctrines History 16th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The institutional matrix -- The Pierre Ameaux case: divorce for adultery and blasphemy -- The Antoine Calvin case: divorce for adultery -- The Jean Bietrix case: forced reconciliation -- Death for adultery -- The Galeazzo Caracciolo case: divorce for religious desertion -- The rationale for divorce: Theodore Beza's treatise.".
- catalog title "Adultery and divorce in Calvin's Geneva / Robert M. Kingdon.".
- catalog type "text".