"This volume presents essays from eight scholars who trained with Robert Kingdon, a vanguard of early modern studies. He required students to go to primary sources, yet they were free to pursue their own curiosity. No matter what their approach to the sources, students were held to a high standard of thoroughness, precision, and attention to detail. This festschrift displays something of the diversity of language, source materials, metho ..."
"Transition and Revolution; Problems and Issues of European Renaissance and Reformation History"
Calvin and Calvinism Sources of Democracy? by Robert M. Kingdon Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1971 by D C Heath & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-669-52472-7, ISBN: 0-669-52472-7
" In Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time. The first is to the history of divorce. The second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva--an institution designed to control in all its variety the behavior of ..."
"DONNELLY, J. P., ED. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF PETER MARTYR VERMIGLI. IN COLLABORATION WITH R. M. KINGDON. ANN ARBOR, MI, 1990, xiv 215 p.,facsimiles. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo."
"John Calvin transformed the Western theology and law of sex, marriage, and family life. Building on a generation of Protestant reforms, Calvin constructed a comprehensive new theology and law that made marital formation and dissolution, childrenbs nurture and welfare, family cohesion and support, and sexual sin and crime essential concerns for both church and state. Working with other jurists and theologians, Calvin drew the Consistory ..."
"This critical edition of the Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the time of Calvin reveals what life was like during the Protestant Reformation in a city where ecclesiastical discipline affected many. These valuable primary source documents- the great bulk of which have remained unknown to most modern researchers- are of capital importance for study of this seminal period in church history. Volume 1 records the activity of the Co ..."
" In Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time. The first is to the history of divorce. The second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva--an institution designed to control in all its variety the beh ..."
Speaking of Books A Symposium in Celebration of the Frederick C. Artz Bequest (At Oberlin College Library), Published for the Friends of the Oberlin College Library (1988, Hardcover) by Robert Elgy Neil, RobertMccuneKingdon, Harold Stein Jantz 24 Pages, Published 1989 ISBN-13: 978-0-944125-08-3, ISBN: 0-944125-08-5
" An epochal event in French history, the St. Bartholomew's Day religious massacres are still the subject of controversy. A leading historian of the early modern period, Robert Kingdon, writes about the reactions to the massacres that were published at the time, showing how the relatively new medium of print was used by the Protestants to shape reaction to the catastrophe an early example of the printing press as an agent of social and p ..."
"William Cecil, William Cecil Baron Burghley, William Allen Robert McCune
Kingdon. INTRODUCTION. THE two short books reprinted in this volume
illustrate a problem which has bedeviled western civilization throughout its
history, that of dual ..."
"War. William. S. Maltby. National images, like racial stereotypes, belong to the
murkier realms of popular culture. They may be defined as a set of characteristics
generally attributed to the members of a particular ethnic or national group and at
their broadest level involve a kind of mythmaking, an attempt to provide a
shorthand description of complex phenomena through the creation of an
archetype. Though they do not always posse ..."
Reforming Geneva Discipline, Faith and Anger in Calvin's Geneva by RobertMccuneKingdon Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2012 by Droz ISBN-13: 978-2-600-01584-4, ISBN: 2-600-01584-1
"In this book, Robert M. Kingdon surveys the theoretical underpinnings of the Calvinist emphasis on discipline and how theory was put into practice by John Calvin in Reformation Geneva."
"Au temps des guerres de religion de nombreux pasteurs formés à Genève prirent part aux conflits et tentèrent d'amener la Fille aînée de l'Eglise à la foi réformée. Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1555-1563) met en évidence le rôle déterminant que certains prédicateurs jouèrent dans cette période de troubles, révélant l'imbrication, une fois encore, des pouvoirs religieux et politique. Cet essai ayant considérabl ..."