Jeffrey R Watts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey R Watts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey R |
| FAMILY NAME | Watts |
| SIGNATURE | WATTS J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4579-7562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La France huguenote: Histoire institutionnelle d’une minorité religieuse (XVIe–XVIIIe siècle)
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fif…
Calvin Puts His House in Order: The Reformer Confronts His Dissolute Stepchildren
Streghe, sciamani, visionari: In margine a “Storia Notturna” di Carlo Ginzburg
Streghe, sciamani, visionari: In margine a “Storia Notturna” di Carlo Ginzburg. Cora Presezzi, ed. Studi del dipartimento di storia antropologia religioni arte spettacolo 16. Rome: Viella, 2019. 460 pp. €39. - Volume 74 Issue 3
The Protestant Inquisition?: The Consistory in Calvin's Geneva
Created by John Calvin, the Consistory of Geneva was a quasi-tribunal entrusted with enforcing Reformed morality. Comprised of pastors and elders, this body met weekly and summoned people for a wide range of "sinful" behavior, such as drunkenness, dancing, blasphemy, or simply quarrels, and was a far more intrusive institution than the Catholic Inquisition. Among the thousands summoned during Calvin's ministry were a pair of women who were allege…
The Consistory and Social Discipline in Calvin's Geneva
Created by John Calvin, the Consistory of Geneva was a quasi-tribunal entrusted with enforcing Reformed morality. Comprised of pastors and elders, this body met weekly and summoned people for a wide range of "sinful" behavior, such as drunkenness, dancing, blasphemy, or simply quarrels, and was a far more intrusive institution than the Catholic Inquisition. Among the thousands summoned during Calvin's ministry were a pair of women who were allege…
The Suicidal Mind and Body: Examples from Northern Germany
Calvinus Pastor Ecclesiae: Papers of the Eleventh International Congress on Calvin Research
Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark
Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark. Louise Nyholm Kallestrup. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xvi + 206 pp. $90. - Volume 69 Issue 3
The Roman Inquisition: Trying Galileo, written by Thomas F. Mayer
Christ Transformed into a Virgin Woman: Lucia Brocadelli, Heinrich Institoris, and the Defense of the Faith
Writing and Editing Texts for the 21st Century Classroom
Witchcraft, Madness, Society, and Religion in Early Modern Germany: A Ship of Fools
Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798
Death by Effigy: A Case from the Mexican Inquisition
Calvin’s Geneva Confronts Magic and Witchcraft: The Evidence from the Consistory
This essay examines the actions of the Consistory of Geneva, a morals court created and dominated by John Calvin, against reputed cases of magic and superstition. During the ministry of Calvin, the most common of these involved white magic to cure people of various illnesses. The Consistory was not unduly harsh in dealing with therapeutic magic, usually just rebuking the miscreants and temporarily excluding them from communion. It also showed a r…
The Italian Inquisition, by Christopher F. Black
Journal Article The Italian Inquisition, by Christopher F. Black Get access The Italian Inquisition, by Christopher F. Black (New Haven, CT: Yale U.P., 2009; pp. xviii + 330. £35). Jeffrey R. Watt Jeffrey R. Watt University of Mississippi [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue 524, February 2012, Pages 162–164, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cer3…
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
Love Magic and the Inquisition: A Case from Seventeenth-Century Italy
Whenever she was in the presence of her husband, the newlywed Laura Coccapani was plagued by extraordinary woes, which witnesses attributed to demons. Conventional wisdom held that certain spells could cause people to be repulsed by their spouses, and many believed Valerio Trionfanti, a Franciscan with whom Coccapani once had a lengthy but unconsummated affair, had cast a spell. Launching an investigation in November 1628, the Inquisition of Mode…
La Construction De L'identité Reformée AUX XVIe et XVIIe Siecles – By Raymond A. Mentzer
The Cult of the Virgin Mary: Protestant and Catholic Piety in Early Modern Germany, 1500‐1648 – By Bridget Heal
The Occult Mind: Magic in Theory and Practice
White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance: From Ficino, Pico, Delia Porta to Trithemius, Agrippa, Bruno
Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
I tribunali del matrimonio (secoli XV-XVIII): I processi matrimoniali degli archivi ecclesiastici italiani
Having already co-edited three impressive volumes on the history of marriage and its control, Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni have now published a useful collection of essays on the matrimonial tribunals of late medieval and early modern Europe. The twenty-seven entries in this volume are revisions of papers that were presented at a conference held in Trento in October 2001. As with many conference proceedings, the quality of the articl…
Calvin’s Geneva Confronts Magic and Witchcraft: The Evidence from the Consistory
This essay examines the actions of the Consistory of Geneva, a morals court created and dominated by John Calvin, against reputed cases of magic and superstition. During the ministry of Calvin, the most common of these involved white magic to cure people of various illnesses. The Consistory was not unduly harsh in dealing with therapeutic magic, usually just rebuking the miscreants and temporarily excluding them from communion. It also showed a r…
The Family, Love, and Suicide in Early Modern Geneva
Analysis of criminal proceedings and death records for early modem Geneva reveals an explosion in suicides after 1750. New attitudes toward courtship, marriage, and the family contributed to this dramatic increase, as unprecedented numbers of people took their lives because of family concerns, such as marital breakdown, unhappy love stories, and deaths of family members, Greater interest in the companionate marriage was central to these changes. …
Divorce in Early Modern Neuchâtel, 1547-1806
Analysis of all divorce litigation extant in Neuchâtel from the introduction of divorce in the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century suggests substantial changes, both quantitative and qualitative, over this long period. The proportion of couples going through divorce remained a small minority during the whole period, but the reasons for requesting divorce and the grounds on which divorce was granted changed, with the most notewor…
Marriage Contract Disputes in Early Modern Neuchatel, 1547-1806
Journal Article Marriage Contract Disputes in Early Modern Neuchatel, 1547–1806 Get access Jeffrey R. Watt Jeffrey R. Watt University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 22, Issue 1, Autumn 1988, Pages 129–147, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/22.1.129 Published: 01 October 1988
The Reception of the Reformation in Valangin, Switzerland, 1547-1588
Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities
Divorce in Early Modern Neuchâtel, 1547-1806
Analysis of all divorce litigation extant in Neuchâtel from the introduction of divorce in the mid-sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century suggests substantial changes, both quantitative and qualitative, over this long period. The proportion of couples going through divorce remained a small minority during the whole period, but the reasons for requesting divorce and the grounds on which divorce was granted changed, with the most notewor…
Calvin and Social Welfare: Deacons and the ``Bourse française
Jeannine E. Olson. Calvin and Social Welfare: Deacons and the "Bourse française". Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press; London-Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1989. 341 pp. $55. - Volume 43 Issue 4
Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective: "Selections from "Quaderni Storici
The Making of Modern Marriage: Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchatel
This is the first book to cover the marriage litigation of a given area for the entire early modern period. Using the exceptionally rich court records of Neuchatel, Jeffrey R. Watt analyzes both the socio-economic developments and the intellectual movements of the era to illustrate the transformation in the nature of marriage and the family.
Women and the Consistory in Calvin's Geneva
At its inception (1542-1544), the Consistory of Geneva was concerned above all with the religious practices of the common people. Calvin and his collegues were particularly wary of the piety of women, who appeared more attached than men to the rituals of Roman Catholicism. Moreover, the Consistory offered little protection to the wives of abusive husbands, nor did women benefit from the introduction of divorce. However, the Consistory did not dis…
Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris
The Making of Modern Marriage: Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchatel, 1550-1800
Marriage and the English Reformation
The Family, Love, and Suicide in Early Modern Geneva
Analysis of criminal proceedings and death records for early modem Geneva reveals an explosion in suicides after 1750. New attitudes toward courtship, marriage, and the family contributed to this dramatic increase, as unprecedented numbers of people took their lives because of family concerns, such as marital breakdown, unhappy love stories, and deaths of family members, Greater interest in the companionate marriage was central to these changes. …
Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality
Part I. Sexology Before the Era of Freud: 1. Sowing the field: Greek and Roman sexology Helen King 2. Sadism, masochism and history, or when is behaviour sado-masochistic? Vern L. Bullough 3. Some traditional Indian views on menstruation and female sexuality Julia Leslie 4. Sexual knowledge in England, 1500-1750 Patricia Crawford 5. The transformation of Eve: women's bodies, medicine and culture in early modern England Robert Martensen 6. The lit…
Courtship, Illegitimacy and Marriage in Early Modern England
Calvin on Suicide
In October 1555 Jean Jourdain, twenty-six, a humble farmer living near Geneva, was distraught at having contracted venereal disease, for which he could not afford medical treatment. On a Sunday morning, rather than going to church, Jourdain went into the woods where he stabbed himself. Immediately after inflicting the wound, Jourdain heard the ringing of the church bell. Feeling remorse, he asked forgiveness from God and walked to a nearby villag…
The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1500
Calvinism, Childhood, and Education: The Evidence from the Genevan Consistory
The Protestant Reformation had an important impact on practices pertaining to children, and the registers of the consistory provide valuable insight to changes in child-rearing in Calvin's Geneva. Genevan leaders aggressively attacked practices they deemed papist, eliminating, for example, baptisms performed postmortem or by midwives and the naming of children after saints. The consistory also exhorted mothers and especially fathers to oversee ca…
Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism , by Philip Benedict
The Reformation for Armchair Theologians ? Glenn S. Sunshine
Architect of Reformation: An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger, 1504‐1575 – Edited by Bruce Gordon and Emidio Campi
Infant Baptism in Reformation Geneva: The Shaping of a Community, 1536‐1564 – By Karen E. Spierling
Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity ? Susan E. Dinan
A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France
As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the “Giroux affair” was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, archenemies, servants, royalty, and legal proceedings that reached the pinnacle of seventeenth-century French society. In 1638 Philippe Giroux, a judge in the highest royal court of Burgundy, allegedly murdered his equally powerful cousin, Pierre Baillet, and Baillet’s valet, Philibert Neugot. The murder…
Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Steven Ozment
Marc R. Forster and Benjamin J. Kaplan, eds. Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Steven Ozment. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. x + 242 pp. index. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7646-5248-3. - Volume 59 Issue 3
Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon – By David Lederer
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