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With a brilliant introduction that explains their context, these registers contain the minutes for eleven-and-a-half months of the weekly meetings of the Genevan consistory, a church court instigated by John Calvin and his supporters in 1542 after his recall to Geneva from his ministry in Strasbourg (1538-41). Calvin, with a legal education, was well aware of the gap left by the absence of Roman Catholic ecclesiastical courts after the Protestant Reformation in Geneva. During Calvin's first sojourn in Geneva (1536-38), he and the pastors tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the Genevan governing councils to remedy the situation, especially with regard to marital law. Thus it is no surprise that this consistory volume, like others, paid attention to cases involving sex and marriage: adultery, breech of promise, bigamy, fornication, sodomy, and illegitimate children. However, amid the cases of sexual promiscuity (especially of masters with female servants), there were attempts, sometimes successful, to reconcile spouses, neighbors, relatives, and friends. After all, pastors of Geneva were consistory members. Rarely did the consistory allow separation, but divorce with the right to rema

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Author

Jeannine Olson

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Published

2017

Language

FR

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)