Article: Pastoral care east of Eden: the consistory of Geneva, 1568-82 (1).

Reformed churches in early modern Europe gave special prominence to moral discipline and created institutions to oversee public behavior and promote personal sanctification. These moral tribunals--known variously as consistories, kirk sessions, presbyteries, or Kirchenrat--have been of particular interest to social historians, who have found in disciplinary records a rich deposit for understanding popular belief and daily life in the age of Reformations. Today a veritable "cottage industry" (to use Judith Pollman's apt phrase) of specialized studies exists exploring the form and function of reformed discipline throughout sixteenth-century Europe, from Emden to the French ...






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