Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

by Robert Kingdon and Robert M. Kingdon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067400521X
• ISBN13: 9780674005211
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"