John Calvin

Standard Name: Calvin, John

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Rose Hickman	Anne Locke was the first translator of John Calvin into English, and probably author of the first sonnet sequence in English. The sisters-in-law were close both intellectually and emotionally, and corresponded when they were living...
Friends, Associates	Anne Locke	AL was also a friend of Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk (who shared her religious exile in Geneva before moving on to Lithuania), and of Catherine Killigrew, née Cooke . Her later collaboration with Killigrew...
Material Conditions of Writing	Anne Locke	Someone entered in the Stationers' RegisterAL 's English versions of four sermons by John Calvin on the 38th chapter of Isaiah, printed that year with her initials, dedication, and sonnets expanding a psalm. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Textual Features	Anne Locke	AL 's title-page quotes from Saint Paul 's Epistle to the Romans: The spirit beareth witnesse to our spirit that wee are the sons of God . . . . The sentence goes on...
Textual Features	Susanna Watts	Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...
Textual Features	Brilliana Lady Harley	It reflects her theological interests, containing—for instance—paraphrases from Calvin 's Institutes of the Christian Religion, from works by William Perkins , and the sermons of the local vicar. Eales, Jacqueline. Puritans and Roundheads. Cambridge University Press, 1990. 25, 43, 49 She translated part...
Textual Features	Brilliana Lady Harley	The letters of this correspondence, even more verbally demonstrative than those to her husband, also teem with good advice about diet, exercise, and learning. When her son arrives at university, BLH urges him to read...
Textual Features	Lucy Hutchinson	The first five cantos of this poem in rhyming couplets (all that was printed in 1679) cover the first three chapters of the book of Genesis, ending with a firm gesture of closure. Meditations...
Textual Production	Catherine Carswell	At the time of her death, CC was researching a biography of Calvin and had been engaged to help Susan Tweedsmuir on the sorting of John Buchan 's papers. Carswell's work on the papers formed...
Textual Production	Queen Elizabeth I	In her early teens Elizabeth (like her contemporary Jane Lumley ) often presented translations she had made as new year's gifts to members of her family. The writers whom she rendered into English included champions...
Textual Production	Lucy Hutchinson	In about 1667-8 LH wrote notes from Calvin 's Institutes (planning a study of them), and recorded her opinions on theological topics like church governance, baptism (as child or adult), predestination, self-examination, perfectibility (which she...

Timeline

1536

John Calvin , who became the single greatest influence on the Reform movement, published The Institutes of the Christian Religion.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Kernohan, Robert Deans. Our Church: A Guide to the Kirk of Scotland. Saint Andrew, 1985.

21 July 1542

Pope Paul III revived the medieval inquisition to counter the threat posed to Roman Catholicism by the new Protestant thinking of Martin Luther and John Calvin .

Cristianità. http://www.alleanzacattolica.org/.

Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

30 September 1770

Charismatic evangelist George Whitefield died at Newburyport, near Boston, Massachusetts.

Wheatley, Phillis, and Henry Louis, Jr Gates. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Editor Shields, John C., Oxford University Press, 1988.

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