Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

Name: Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva
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ISBN: 9780674005211

ISBN-10: 067400521X

ISBN-13: 9780674005211

Edition: 1995

Authors: Robert M. Kingdon

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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…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/2/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.78" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Conclusion


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index