Infant Baptism in Reformation Geneva: The Shaping of a Community, 1536û1564

This project analyses the changes in Genevan baptismal practices and then uses that analysis as an entrance into the consideration of the place of children in sixteenth-century Genevan society. The main purpose of this approach is to provide a study of the relationship between theology and practice. Ultimately, this study's focus on children and their parents and guardians significantly transforms our understanding of sixteenth-century Genevan society, Calvinism and the Protestant Reformation.

Karen E. Spierling is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Europe in the Department of History at the University of Louisville, USA.