On Time, Punctuality and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Max Engammare explores how the sixteenth-century Protestant reformers of Geneva! France! London! and Bern internalized a new concept of time. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Max Engammare, Engammare Max
• Assisted by: Karin Maag (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521769976
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76997-6
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Law; History, HISTORY / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / Presbyterian, RELIGION / Christianity / Calvinist, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches, Calvinist, Reformed and Presbyterian Churches