On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism
- Author: Max Engammare, Swiss National Science Foundation Researcher
- Translator: Karin Maag, Swiss National Science Foundation Researcher
- Date Published: September 2013
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107661639
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback
Looking for an inspection copy?
This title is not currently available on inspection
-
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. Applying a moral and spiritual code to the course of the day, they regulated their relationship with time, which was, in essence, a new relationship with God. As Calvin constantly reminded his followers, God watches his faithful every minute. Come Judgement Day, the faithful in turn will have to account for each minute. Engammare argues that the inhabitants of Calvin's Geneva invented the new habit of being on time, a practice unknown in antiquity. It was also fundamentally different from notions of time in the monastic world of the medieval period and unknown to contemporaries such as Erasmus, Vives, the early Jesuits, Rabelais, Ronsard, or Montaigne. Engammare shows that punctuality did not proceed from technical innovation. Rather, punctuality was above all a spiritual, social, and disciplinary virtue.
Read more- Discipline of time
- Calvin and early Calvinism
- From day to year, Protestant calendars
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: September 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107661639
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table 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.
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×