Description: Further DetailsTitle: Adultery and Divorce in Calvin’s GenevaCondition: NewEAN: 9780674005211ISBN: 9780674005211Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/02/1995Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 147mmItem Weight: 304gAuthor: Robert M. KingdonLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 067400521XDescription: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryBook Series: Harvard Historical StudiesTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 1995 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Adultery and Divorce in Calvin’s Geneva
Title: Adultery and Divorce in Calvin’s Geneva
EAN: 9780674005211
ISBN: 9780674005211
Release Date: 03/02/1995
Release Year: 1995
ISBN-10: 067400521X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1995
Subject: Christianity / Protestant, Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Divorce & Separation, Modern / 16th Century, Europe / Western, Social History
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Family & Relationships, Religion, History
Author: Robert M. Kingdon
Series: Harvard Historical Studies
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
