Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation: With a New Preface

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Westminster John Knox Press, Jan 1, 2003 - Religion - 272 pages

This book chronicles the history of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth century Geneva under the leadership of John Calvin and is the best modern study of the Genevan Reformation available. The narrative of this work is enhanced by twenty-seven tables of extensive statistical data and eleven prosopographical appendices drawn from the author's extensive studies in the Geneva archives. His work shows the challenges faced by Calvin and his associates as they sought to proclaim and enact their Christian faith in a Genevan society that was facing severe problems with the influx of refugees from all over Europe.

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Contents

Introductionı
12
FIGURES
16
TABLES
24
Negotiators with Berne 154040
40
Calvin and his colleagues53
53
Genevan ministers 15385458
58
Ministers before the Petit Conseil 154150 causes
74
the first crisis84
84
Nobles of indeterminate origin or date135
135
Genevan baptismal names145
145
the final crisis167
167
Crimes in Geneva per year 155157179
179
Individuals charged as Perrinists195
195
Calvin triumphant208
208
Senatorial and Consistorial experience211
211
APPENDICES237
237

Losses to Conseils 15374791
91
hospitality and xenophobia121
121
Bourgeois origins 153546126
126
APPENDICES
132
Major Genevan transactions 153848248
248
SOURCES251
251
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William G. Naphy is Head of the Department of History/Director of Teaching, School of History and History of Art, King's College, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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