Participant Info

First Name
Karen
Last Name
Spierling
Affiliation
Denison University
Website URL
https://denison.edu/people/karen-spierling
Keywords
Early Modern European History, The Reformation, History of Religion, Reformation Geneva, John Calvin, Early Modern Baptism, Early Modern Scandal, Consistories and Church Discipline, Community Definition, Family and Gender
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Recent Publications

“‘Il faut éviter le scandale’: Debating Community Standards in Reformation Geneva,” Reformation & Renaissance Review, 20:1 (2018): 51-69, DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2018.1435175.

Emancipating Calvin: Reformed Communities and Culture in Early Modern Francophone Europe, Essays in Honor of Raymond A. Mentzer, Jr., co-edited with R. Ward Holder and Erik A. de Boer. Leiden: Brill (2018).

“Negotiating Penance: Interactions between Consistories and Lay Transgressors.” In Charles H. Parker and Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, eds, Judging Faith, Punishing Sin: Inquisitions and Consistories in the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017).

Infant Baptism in Reformation Geneva: The Shaping of a Community, 1536–1564.  St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.  Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005; Westminster John Knox Press, 2009.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Switzerland and France/Western Europe
Expertise by Geography
Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Early Modern
Expertise by Topic