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Article: Sex, Marriage, and Family Life in John Calvin's Geneva.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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John Witte and Robert M. Kingdon. Sex, Marriage, and Family Life in John Calvin's Geneva.
Vol. 1, Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage. Religion, Marriage, and Family. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005. xxxii + 512 pp. index. tbls. $32. ISBN: 0-8028-4803-6.
Sex, Marriage, and Family Life in John Calvin's Geneva is projected to be a three-volume work. This first volume covers laws and customs in Geneva surrounding engagement, the abbreviated period between engagement and marriage, and the marriage ceremony itself during the era of John Calvin (1536-64) and Theodore Beza (d. 1605), but this limited timespan is extended by setting the ...
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