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Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation

With a New Preface

By: William G. Naphy

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Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation

With a New Preface

By: William G. Naphy

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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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664226620

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9780664226626

The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

By: William Beckford

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The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

By: William Beckford

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385416523

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9783385416529

Sovereign Grace

The Place and Significance of Christian Freedom in John Calvin's Political Thought

By: William R. Stevenson Jr.

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The Place and Significance of Christian Freedom in John Calvin's Political Thought

By: William R. Stevenson Jr.

The Reformation thinker John Calvin had significant and unusual things to say about life in public encounter, things which both anticipate modern thinking and, says William Stevenson, can serve as important antidotes to some of modern thinking's broader pretensions. This study attempts to give a coherent picture of Calvin's political theory by following the stream that flows from his fascinating short essay, "On Christian Freedom," one chapter in the magisterial Institutes of the Christian Religion. Stevenson argues that a full examination of this essay yields not only a more thorough explication--and historical placement--of Calvin's political ideas proper but also a more complete and coherent picture of their theological underpinnings.

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215

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Oxford University Press

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0195352297

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9780195352290

Plagues, poisons and potions

Plague-spreading conspiracies in the Western Alps, c. 1530–1640

By: William G. Naphy

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Plagues, poisons and potions

Plague-spreading conspiracies in the Western Alps, c. 1530–1640

By: William G. Naphy

Plagues, poisons and potions highlights one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of early modern plague. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries outbreaks of plague in and around the ancient Duchy of Savoy led to the arrests of many people who were accused of conspiring to spread the disease. Those implicated in the conspiracies were usually poor female migrants working in the plague hospitals under the direction of educated professional male barber-surgeons. These 'conspirators' were subsequently tried for spreading plague among leading and wealthy people from urban areas so that they could rob them while the afflicted homeowners were confined to their beds. In order to understand how this phenomenon developed and was regarded at the time, this study examines the courts, the judiciary and the part played by torture in the trials, which frequently concluded with the spectacular and gruesome execution of the suspects. The author goes on to consider the socio-economic conditions of the workers and in doing so highlights an early modern form of 'class warfare'. However, what makes this phenomenon especially interesting is that in an age dominated by superstition, religious strife and witch-hunts, the conspiracies were always given a moe rational explanation and motivation – profit. Both teachers and students of early modern history will be fascinated by this enlightening study into the fears of European society, the spread of the disease and the judicial procedures of the time.

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Manchester University Press

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1526158604

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9781526158604

Sovereign Grace

The Place and Significance of Christian Freedom in John Calvin's Political Thought

By: William R. Stevenson

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The Place and Significance of Christian Freedom in John Calvin's Political Thought

By: William R. Stevenson

The Reformation thinker John Calvin had significant and unusual things to say about life in public encounter, things which both anticipate modern thinking and, says William Stevenson, can serve as important antidotes to some of modern thinking's broader pretensions. Although much has been written about Calvin's political theory, a coherent picture has yet to emerge. He has been seen variously as a proto-liberal democrat, a reckless revolutionary, a "constructive" revolutionary, an unforgiving authoritarian, and an intransigent traditionalist. Can these pictures be reconciled? This study attempts such a reconciliation by following the stream that flows from Calvin's fascinating short essay "On Christian Freedom," one chapter in the magisterial Institutes of the Christian Religion.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195125061

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9780195125061

Reformed Theology and Visual Culture

The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards

By: William A. Dyrness

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Reformed Theology and Visual Culture

The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards

By: William A. Dyrness

William Dyrness examines how particular theological themes of Reformed Protestants impacted on their surrounding visual culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521540739

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9780521540735

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

The Period of the Witch Trials

By: Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark,E. William Monter

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

The Period of the Witch Trials

By: Bengt Ankarloo,Stuart Clark,E. William Monter

A compact survey of the European witch craze of the early modern period—a craze that later spilled over to America.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081221787X

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9780812217872

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

The Period of the Witch Trials

By: Stuart Clark,William Monter

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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

The Period of the Witch Trials

By: Stuart Clark,William Monter

The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the history of the trials in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved. Other topics covered will be the continued practical use made of magic, the elaboration of demonological theories about witchcraft and magic, and the further development of scientific interests in natural magic through the 'Neoplatonic' and 'Hermetic' period.Amongst the topics included here are Superstition and Belief in high and popular culture, the place of Medicine, Witchcraft survivals in art and literature, and the survival of Persecution.>

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A&C Black

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0485890046

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9780485890044

Judging the French Reformation

Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-century Parlements

By: E. William Monter

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Judging the French Reformation

Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-century Parlements

By: E. William Monter

This original look at the French Reformation pits immovable object--the French appellate courts or parlements--against irresistible force--the most dynamic forms of the Protestant Reformation. Without the slightest hesitation, the high courts of Renaissance France opposed these religious innovators. By 1540, the French monarchy had largely removed the prosecution of heresy from ecclesiastical courts and handed it to the parlements. Heresy trials and executions escalated dramatically. But within twenty years, the irresistible force had overcome the immovable object: the prosecution of Protestant heresy, by then unworkable, was abandoned by French appellate courts. Until now no one has investigated systematically the judicial history of the French Reformation. William Monter has examined the myriad encounters between Protestants and judges in French parlements, extracting information from abundant but unindexed registers of official criminal decisions both in Paris and in provincial capitals, and identifying more than 425 prisoners condemned to death for heresy by French courts between 1523 and 1560. He notes the ways in which Protestants resisted the French judicial system even before the religious wars, and sets their story within the context of heresy prosecutions elsewhere in Reformation Europe, and within the long-term history of French criminal justice.

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Harvard University Press

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0674488601

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9780674488601

A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary

Part II

By: William Smith,Philip Ernest Brette

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A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary

Part II

By: William Smith,Philip Ernest Brette

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385499712

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9783385499713

Alpha Teach Yourself French in 24 Hours

By: William Griffin

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Alpha Teach Yourself French in 24 Hours

By: William Griffin

This structured, self-paced guide gives step-by-step assistance in mastering the fundamentals of French, the second most popular language in the United States. Includes added information on what not to say, conversational shortcuts, and slang.

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Penguin

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0028641736

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9780028641737

Book's by William Monter

Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation

Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation

The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the Third Portion. The Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace

Sovereign Grace

Sovereign Grace

Plagues, poisons and potions

Plagues, poisons and potions

Sovereign Grace

Sovereign Grace

Reformed Theology and Visual Culture

Reformed Theology and Visual Culture

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

Judging the French Reformation

Judging the French Reformation

A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary

A First French Reading Book. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History, with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary

Alpha Teach Yourself French in 24 Hours

Alpha Teach Yourself French in 24 Hours

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