Calvin's Geneva

For over four hundred years, the city of Geneva has been important in Western history. The character of this city-steady, serious, erudite, clannish, and proud-has remained virtually unchanged since Calvin's time, the heroic age when she first became famous. Professor Monter relates the "success story" of this fascinating city through a fresh synthesis of printed and archival sources.

In the sixteenth century, Geneva succeeded in winning and maintaining her independence, a feat unique in Ref...