History 2P91: Geneva and the Growth of Calvinism

• C. Lindberg, The European Reformations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).  read pages 169-197, 249-274

• 1.  Genevan Ecclesiastical Ordinances (1541)
• 2.  Parish visitation in Geneva's villages (1540s)
• 3.  John Calvin, Correspondence
• 4.  John Calvin, To French Congregations (1550s)
• 5.  Florimond de Raemond, Lure of Geneva (excerpts), in Calvinism in Europe, 1540-1610

Additional Reading Lists

• F. L. Battles ed., John Calvin (Abingdon: Sutton Courtenay Press, 1966).
• Philip Benedict, 'Calvinism as a Culture? Preliminary Remarks on Calvinism and the Visual Arts', in Seeing Beyond the Word, ed. P.C. Finney (Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans, 1999), 19-45.
• William J. Bouwsma, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
• T.W. Casteel, 'Calvin and Trent: Calvin's Reaction to the Council of Trent in the Context of His Conciliar Thought,' Harvard Theological Review 63 no.1 (1970): 91-117.
• Philippe Denis, Les églises d'étrangers en pays rhéenans (1534-1564) (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1984).
• P.C. Finney ed., Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1999).
• P. Geisendorf, Métiers et conditions sociales du premier refuge à Genève (Geneva: Droz, 1963).
• Francis Higman, Calvin's works in translation, ed. Andrew Pettegree, Alastair Duke and Gillian Lewis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
• Robert M. Kingdon, 'Calvin and the establishment of consistory discipline in Geneva: the institution and the men who directed it,' Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis 70 (1990): 158-172.
• Robert M. Kingdon, 'Calvin and the Government of Geneva', in Calvinus ecclesiae Genevensis custos, ed. W. H. Neusner (Frankfurt: , 1984), 49-67.
• Robert M. Kingdon, Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563 (Geneva: Droz, 1956).
• Robert M. Kingdon, 'The Control of morals in Calvin's Geneva', in The Social History of the Reformation, ed. L. Back and J. W. Zophy (Columbus: , 1972), 3-16.
• William Monter, Calvin's Geneva (New York: John Wiley, 1967).
• William Monter, 'Crime and punishment in Calvin's Geneva,' Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte (1973): 281-287.
• William G. Naphy, Calvin and the consolidation of the Genevan Reformation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994).
• Andrew Pettegree, Alastair Duke & Gillian Lewis ed., Calvinism in Europe, 1540-1620 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
• Jeffrey Watt, 'Women and the consistory in Calvin's Geneva', in , ed. (: , 1993), 429-439.
• J. Witvliet, 'The spirituality of the psalter: Metrical psalms in liturgy and life in Calvin's Geneva,' Calvin Theological Journal 32 no.2 (1997): 273-297.

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