02146nam a2200169Ia 4500 230823s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97808607815850860781585 eng BR309 .K55 1985 Kingdon, Robert McCune Church and society in Reformation Europe / Robert McCune Kingdon London : Variorum reprints, 1985 350 p. ; 25 cm. Defining the true church -- The church : Ideology or institution? -- Some French reactions to the council of Trent -- Problems of religious choice for sixteenth-century frenchmen -- Peter Martyr Vermigli and the marks of the true church -- The church in Calvin's Geneva -- Was the protestant reformation a revolution? The case of Geneva -- Social welfare in Calvin's Geneva -- The deacons of the reformed church in Calvin's Geneva -- The control of morals in Calvin's Geneva -- Protestant parishes in the old world and the new : The cases of Geneva and Boston -- The church and the theories of political resistance and democracy -- The first expression of theodore Beza's political ideas -- The political resistance of the calvinists in France and the low countries -- Calvinism and democracy : Some political implications of debates on French reformed church government, 1562-1572 -- William Allen's use of protestant political argument -- Reactions to the St. Bartholomew massacres in Geneva and Rome -- The political thought of Peter Martyr Vermigli -- The function of law in the political thought of Peter Martyr Vermigli -- The Church and the printing press -- Patronage, piety and printing in sixteenth-century Europe -- The business activities of printers Henri and François Estienne -- The Plantin Breviaries : A case study in the sixteenth-century business operations of a publishing house -- Christopher Plantin and his bankers, 1575-1590 : a study in the problems of financing business during war -- Pamphlet literature of the French reformation. ‎ 16th century Roman Catholic Church. [various studies].16th century Roman Catholic Church. various studies.Reformation. 46208 46208