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10 - Daily Life in Geneva

from Part II - Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Geneva

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

By
Jill Fehleison
Edited by
R. Ward Holder
R. Ward Holder
Affiliation:
Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire
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Summary

In the grand narrative of the European past, Geneva’s history begins with the arrival of the Reformed faith. Historian Herbert D. Foster noted in 1903 that there was not a good history of Geneva written in English prior to the arrival of John Calvin. Sadly, this hole in the scholarship has not been filled more than a century later. The bulk of the works about Geneva focus on the period of John Calvin’s residency there. Louis Binz offers a detailed study in French of the episcopal world of the diocese of Geneva prior to the Reformation, but there is still much to be learned of what life was like in Geneva prior to the changes brought by the introduction of the Reformation. By exploring the civic life of Geneva after the Reformed faith transformed many aspects of the landscape and function of the city within the larger history of the place, a richer picture through multiple lenses emerges.1

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GenevalandscapeRhone Riverspaceimmigrationcity walls
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John Calvin in Context , pp. 87 - 93
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Suggested Further Reading

Binz, Louis. A Brief History of Geneva, trans. Gunn, Jean. Geneva: Chancellerie d’Etat, 1985.Google Scholar
Engammare, Max. On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism, trans. Maag, Karin. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Jussie, Jeanne de. The Short Chronicle: A Poor Clare’s Account of the Reformation of Geneva, ed. and trans. Klaus, Carrie F.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Monter, E. William. “Historical Demography and Religious History in Sixteenth-Century Geneva,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 9:3 (Winter 1979): 399–427.Google Scholar
Monter, E. William. Calvin’s Geneva New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1967.Google Scholar
Naphy, William G. Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003 (1994 Reprint).Google Scholar
Scott, Tom. The Swiss and Their Neighbors, 1460–1560: Between Accommodation and Aggression. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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