A Dowry, Will, and Blended Family of Calvin’s Geneva Put Anne Colladon, to the Test
Anne Colladon, widow of Laurent de Normandie, financier of the mid-sixteenth century Genevan book trade, grappled with Laurent’s first wife’s estate and her adult stepsons’ claims on her estate. This case study of a famous family of French origin reveals complexities of early-modern systems of dowri...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Year: 2017, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-89 |
RelBib Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church XA Law |
Further subjects: | B
Colladon
B Publishing B Dowries B Laurent de Normandie B Wills B blended family B Anne B Jean Calvin |
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Summary: | Anne Colladon, widow of Laurent de Normandie, financier of the mid-sixteenth century Genevan book trade, grappled with Laurent’s first wife’s estate and her adult stepsons’ claims on her estate. This case study of a famous family of French origin reveals complexities of early-modern systems of dowries and wills and problems for a second wife and her daughter. Normandie was a great hero of the Reformation because of his financing of Calvin’s publications and his dispatching of colporteurs carrying Bibles, catechisms, and Psalters into France. Anne was from a prominent family that fled France for Geneva (1550). She was an astute business woman and seemingly responsible mother but she inherited a complex situation after Normandie’s untimely death of the plague in 1569. She was left with financial problems and two stepsons in a blended family that included three children she had conceived with Laurent. It was not an easy mix. |
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ISSN: | 2196-6656 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2017-0004 |