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The Registers of the Consistory of Geneva at the Time of Calvin: Volume 1: 1542-1544

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This essential edition of the Registers of the Consistory of Geneva within the time of Calvin reveals what life was once like throughout the Protestant Reformation in a city where ecclesiastical discipline affected many. These valuable number one source documents- the great bulk of which have remained unknown to most up to date researchers- are of capital importance for study of this seminal period in church history. Volume 1 records the activity of the Consistory between 1542 and 1544. Arbitration of disputes, surveillance of morals, repression of the vestiges of the Catholic cult, promotion of the Reformed mode of living, resolution of matrimonial cases- this can be a general sketch of the Consistory’s work throughout its earliest days. Wealthy in details pertaining to day-to-day life and piety in Geneva, these noteworthy historical documents testify to the immense role played by the church in society originally of the Reformation.

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