"Civil and Canonical Law"
- Artist/Author/Producer: Calvin, John (1509-1564)
- Confronting Bodies: The Sorbonne, Queen Mary
- Dates of action:
1542+
- Location: France, England, Italy
- Description of the Art Work
- "Civil and Canonical Law" 1542: Reformed Protestantism doctrine.
Theologian, ecclesiastical statesman and one of the most important
Protestant Reformers. Calvin attented the University of Orleans, then
returned to Paris to study. After writing a learned study of Seneca's De
CLementia ("Concerning Clemency") Calvin converted to Protestantism. In
1534 he left Paris and settled in Switzerland where he wrote the
"Institutes of Chritian Religion (1536), a comprehensive and sytematic
manual of Protestant dogmatic theology. On his way to Strasbourg in 1536
he stopped in Geneva and became the major figure in this center of
Reformed Protestantism."
- Description of incident
- 1542 France: "Civil and Canonical Law" forbidden by the Sorbonne.
1555 England: Queen Mary's proclamation required "that no manner of
persons presume to bring into the realm any manuscripts, books, papers,
by John Calvin . . . containing false doctrine against the Catholic
faith"
- Results of incident
- 1559 and 1564 Italy-Rome: All works listed for heresy in the first class
prohibition of the "Index."
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B.
Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.