Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin: Volume 1, 1542-1544

Publisher Marketing: This collection of primary source documents portrays many aspects of what life was like during the transitional period of the Protestant Reformation in Geneva, a city in which ecclesiastical authority affected most people. The Consistory heard cases against drunkards, blasphemers, magicians, gambler Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 129 (EAN 9780802846181, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Kingdon, Robert M Robert M. Kingdon is the Hilldale Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, former Director and current Member of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and former editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal. A world authority on the religious, political, and legal history of Calvinist Geneva and France, he has published dozens of articles and seven books, including Adultery and Divorce in Calvinbs Geneva (1995) and the multi-volume Registres du Consistoire de GenC(ve au Temps de Calvin (1996- )