Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
John Calvin
Standard Name: Calvin, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
Timeline
1536: John Calvin, who became the single greatest...
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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.
12
21 July 1542: Pope Paul III revived the medieval inquisition...
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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...
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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.
22ff
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