Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe Hearing, Speaking and Remembering in Calvin's Geneva /

• Main Author: Kvicalova, Anna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; Civilization-History.; Social history.; Religion-History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Cultural History.; Social History.; History of Religion.

This book investigates a host of primary sources documenting the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva, exploring the history and epistemology of religious listening at the crossroads of sensory anthropology and religion, knowledge, and media. It reconstructs the social, religious, and material relations...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Reforming Geneva
• 3. Modes of Verbal Utterance in Calvinist Epistemology
• 4. Hearing Difference and Cultural Construction of Deafness
• 5. Practices of Auditory Memory
• 6. Modes of Child Instruction: Between Church, State, and Family
• 7. Listening in the Genevan Temples
• 8. Conclusion.