On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism

Max Engammare explores how the sixteenth-century Protestant reformers of Geneva, France, London, and Bern internalized a new concept of time.

List of contents

1. John Calvin's personal time-management; 2. Church time and its civic setting; 3. Saving time and learning to be punctual; 4. The growth and decline of Huguenot calendars (mid-sixteenth to late-seventeenth centuries); 5. Ronsard and Tyard versus Viret regarding time; 6. The daily pattern; Conclusion.

About the author

Max Engammare is a scholar of the Reformation and General Director of Editions Droz in Geneva. He is the author and editor of ten books, including an edition of the sermons of John Calvin and, with Nicole Gueunier, Sebastien Castellion, Les livres de Salomon.

Summary

In On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism, Max Engammare explores how the sixteenth-century Protestant reformers of Geneva, France, London, and Bern internalized a new concept of time. Engammare argues that the inhabitants of Calvin's Geneva invented the new habit of being on time, a practice unknown in antiquity.

Product details

• Authors: Max Engammare, Engammare Max
• Assisted by: Karin Maag (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9781107661639
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66163-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / Presbyterian, RELIGION / Christianity / Calvinist, History of Religion, Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches, Calvinist, Reformed and Presbyterian Churches