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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484403403321

Autore

Kvicalova Anna

Titolo

Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe [[electronic resource] ] : Hearing, Speaking and Remembering in Calvin’s Geneva / / by Anna Kvicalova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-03837-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Disciplina

153.68

Soggetti

Europe—History—1492-

Civilization—History

Social history

Religion—History

History of Early Modern Europe

Cultural History

Social History

History of Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Reforming Geneva -- 3. Modes of Verbal Utterance in Calvinist Epistemology -- 4. Hearing Difference and Cultural Construction of Deafness -- 5. Practices of Auditory Memory -- 6. Modes of Child Instruction: Between Church, State, and Family -- 7. Listening in the Genevan Temples -- 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates a host of primary sources documenting the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva, exploring the history and epistemology of religious listening at the crossroads of sensory anthropology and religion, knowledge, and media. It reconstructs the social, religious, and material relations at the heart of the Genevan Reformation by examining various facets of the city’s auditory culture which was marked by a gradual fashioning of new techniques of listening, speaking, and remembering. Anna Kvicalova analyzes the performativity of sensory perception in the framework of Calvinist



religious epistemology, and approaches hearing and acoustics both as tools through which the Calvinist religious identity was constructed, and as objects of knowledge and rudimentary investigation. The heightened interest in the auditory dimension of communication observed in Geneva is studied against the backdrop of contemporary knowledge about sound and hearing in a wider European context.