Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva. - KINGDON, ROBERT M.
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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 oth...
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1995Uitgever: Harvard University Press214 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 067400521XISBN-13: 9780674005211Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's green-blue paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: x, 214pp., chapternotes & references, conclusion, abbreviations, bibliography, index, table of contents. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 118: Harvard Historical Studies. Cambridge [MA]-London, Harvard University Press. 1995 [Auteur: KINGDON, ROBERT M.] [Jaar: 1995] [Titel: Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva.]
