RT Article
T1 Buchdruck und Reformation in Genf (1478-1600): ein Überblick
JF Zwingliana
VO 45
SP 281
OP 310
A1 Würgler, Andreas 1961-
LA German
PB TVZ, Theologischer Verlag Zürich
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1046914995
AB This article links profits from the rich literature in the fields of Reformation history and book-history in order to analyse the relation between printing and the Reformation in Geneva from 1478 to 1600 in a general historian's perspective. Although various genres of religious and literary (illustrated) books have been printed for a local market since 1478, texts with evangelical  tendency have not been produced in Geneva before 1536. Therefore, the ideas of Reformation were rather introduced by evangelical preachers than by the printing press. But after that Geneva became the centre of protestant or better: Calvinist printed propaganda in French (and Latin) until the early 1560s. Because of changing political contexts - French wars of Religion and the comeback of the Duke of Savoy as a neighbour - and the emerging of reformed printing in France forced Geneva to redirect their production towards more learned and non-religious books in Latin (humanism, classical authors, science). Nether the less, the production of (Genevan) Bibles and texts of Calvin and his followers and successors did not cease.
NO Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache
K1 Geneva
K1 Jean Calvin
K1 Guillaume Farel
K1 The´odore de Be`ze
K1 Reformation
K1 Printing
K1 history of the book
K1 Early Modern History
K1 Bibel
K1 Pierre Robert Olive´tan