Overview
Examines the changing epistemology of the senses and how new religious knowledge was created and communicated in the first decades of the Calvinist Reformation
Explores the prominent role that hearing and auditory memory were assigned in the sixteenth century
Analyzes how shifts in the understanding of human perception were mirrored by criticisms of religious sensing in the Protestant Reformation
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“This is an extremely impressive piece of scholarship that many will want to read. Its findings are important and will likely lead to other work exploring sense perception, hearing, memory, and the like in the Genevan Reformation.” (Jon Balserak, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, February 9, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anna Kvicalova is Research Fellow at the Center for Theoretical Study at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe
Book Subtitle: Hearing, Speaking and Remembering in Calvin’s Geneva
Authors: Anna Kvicalova
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03837-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03836-6Published: 10 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03837-3Published: 29 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 267
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Cultural History, Social History, History of Religion