Religion

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  Sébastien CASTELLION

  Les Livres de Salomon : Proverbes, Ecclésiaste, Cantique des cantiques 1555

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Sébastien Castellion is recognized as a talented and sagacious translator of the Bible, in both Latin and French. After La Genèse, published in 2003, two members of the original editing team are now publishing his translation of the books attributed...

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  Registres du Consistoire de Genève au temps de Calvin

  Tome IV, 1548, avec extraits des Registres du Conseil, 1548-1550

  Librairie Droz | Registres du Consistoire de Genève n° 429

  In 1548, the Consistory continues its efforts to settle conflicts, adjudicate marriage disputes and enforce the moral régime envisioned by Jean Calvin. In this volume, the controversy over baptismal names sits side by side with interrogations of those...

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  Jean CALVIN

  Brieve instruction pour armer tous bons fideles contre les erreurs de la secte commune des anabaptistes

  Series IV. Scripta didactica et polemica

  Librairie Droz | Ioannis Calvini Opera Omnia

  Having encountered the Anabaptists in Neuchâtel, Guillaume Farel encouraged Calvin to write against them, providing him with information and the French translation of Michael Sattler’s Schleitheim Confession. Calvin was able to make use of some...

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  Jean CALVIN

  Sermons sur le Livre des Revelations du prophete Ezechiel,

  chapitres 36 à 48 (Supplementa Calviniana, X/3)

  Neukirchener Verlag | Varia

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  Un Fragment de la Genèse en vers : fin XIIIe - début XIVe siècle

  Edition critique du Ms. Brit. Libr. Harley 3775

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The Fragment de la Genèse en vers, written in Anglo-Norman sometime between the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century, tells the story of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and finishes with the story of Joseph’s stay in Egypt. Although...

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  Jean CALVIN

  Contre la secte phantastique et furieuse des libertins qui se nomment spirituelz. Response à un certain holandois

  Series IV. Scripta didactica et polemica

  Librairie Droz | Ioannis Calvini Opera Omnia

  The latest volume in the Calvini Opera Denuo Recognita series provides a critical edition of three of Calvin’s treatises. The first two (1545 and 1547) respond to the libertines’ threat to Christianity. The last (1562) is addressed to Dirck Volckertsz...

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  Jean CALVIN

  Epistolae

  Series VI, Volumen I: 1530-septembre 1538

  Librairie Droz | Ioannis Calvini Opera Omnia

  The present volume contains the first eighty-five letters to and from Calvin (with introductions and annotations in English) and five appendices. Twenty of the letters were written before Calvin was first employed in Geneva. The letters written after...

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  L'Intercession du Moyen Age à l'époque moderne : autour d'une pratique sociale

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  Intercession was ubiquitous in ancient societies, from the prayers for the dead to the clientist practice of recommendation. It governed interactions with heaven and created social bonds on earth. How did it work in practice? How effective was it? How...

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  Registres du Consistoire de Genève au temps de Calvin

  Tome III, 1547-1548

  Librairie Droz | Registres du Consistoire de Genève n° 387

  From the Consistory’s earliest days, some Genevans found the displine difficult to bear. However, as the sixteenth-century chronicler Michel Roset noted, it wasn’t until early 1547 that the Consistory’s disciplinary measures “enflamed” François Favre...

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  Sébastien CASTELLION

  La Genèse, 1555

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  A single edition, published in 1555, with only twenty copies remaining through the world. A single printer, Jean Hervage, of Basle. The only really new translation to be made in the XVIth century ? So many distinctive features make Sébastien...