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On Time, Punctuality and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism

by Max Engammare

  • Hardback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15 x 22.4 x 1.8 cm

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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.
On Time, Punctuality and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism and On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism
On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern CalvinismOn Time, Punctuality and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism

  • Author

    Max Engammare

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 2009

  • Weight

    341g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521769976

  • ISBN-10

    0521769973

  • Eden Code

    2323800

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