General

Roland Bainton: The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

Thomas A. Brady, Jr, Heiko A. Oberman, & James D. Tracey, eds.: Handbook of European History 1400-1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, vol 1 (Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1994)

A. G. Dickens: Reformation and Society in 16th Century Europe (London: Thames & Hudson, 1966)

G. R. Elton: Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 (London: Collins, 1963)

J. E. Neale: The Age of Catherine de Medici

John F. H. New: Renaissance and Reformation: A Short History (New York: Wiley, 1969)

Andrew Pettegree, ed.: The Early Reformation in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)


Geneva, Calvin & Calvinism

William J. Bouwsma: John Calvin: A Sixteenth Century Portrait (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)

Francis Higman: Piety and the People: Religious Printing in French (Saint Andrews: Studies in Reformation History, Scholars Press, 1996)

William C. Innes: Social Concern in Calvin's Geneva (Allison Park; Pickwick, 1983)

John McNeill: The History and Character of Calvinism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967)

William G. Naphy: Calvin and the Consolidation of the Genevan Reformation (Mancherster: Manchester University Press, 1994)

T. H. L. Parker: John Calvin: A Biography (London: Dent, 1975)

John B. Roney & Martin I. Klauber, eds.: The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864 (Westport: Greewood, 1998)

Andrew Pettegree, Alasdair Duke, & Gillian Lewis, eds.: Calvinism and Europe 1540-1620 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Thea B. Van Halsema: This Was John Calvin (Grand Rapids: Baker/IDEA, 1959)


France and the Huguenots

Charles Baird: A History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, 2 vols in 1, reprint., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991

Jon Butler: The Huguenots in America: A refugee People in New World Society (Cambridge: Harvard U. P., 1983)

Barbara Diefendorf: Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991)

Janet Glenn Gray: The French Huguenots Mark Greengrass: The French Reformation (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987)

Robert M. Kingdon: Myths about the St Bartholomew's Day Massacres 1572-1576 (Cambridge: Harvard U. P., 1988)

Raymond A. Mentzer, Jr.: Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility (Purdue U. P., 1994)

O. I. A. Roche: The Days of the Upright: A History of the Huguenots (New York, 1942)

N. M. Sutherland: The Huguenot Struggle for Recognition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980
 

John Calvin’s Approach to Worship and Liturgy

John Calvin: Catechism of the Church in Geneva (1545). Pages 83–139 in Calvin: Theological Treatises Library of Christian Classics (LCC) 22 (ed. J.K.S. Reid. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1954).

“Epistle to the reader” The Form of Church Prayers and Hymns (1542). Translated by Charles Garside, Jr. Pages 31-33 in The Origins of Calvin’s Theology of Music: 1536– 1543 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1979).

 The Form of Church Prayers and Hymns (1542) Pages 197–208 in Liturgies of the Western Church (ed. Bard Thompson, Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003).

 Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1541 French edition, tr. Elsie A. McKee (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009).

 Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) LCC 20, 21 (2 vols., ed. John T. McNeill. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1954).

 Short Treatise on the Lord’s Supper (1541). Pages 140–166 in Calvin: Theological Treatises LCC 22 (ed. J.K.S. Reid. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1954).

Elsie A. McKee: Diakonia in the Classical Reformed Tradition and Today (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989).

John Calvin on the Diaconate and Liturgical Almsgiving (Genève: Librairie Droz S.A., 1984).

 ed., John Calvin: Writings on Pastoral Piety (New York: Paulist, 2001).

 Laurence C.Sibley: “The Church as Eucharistic Community: Observations on John Calvin's Early Eucharistic Theology (1535-1545).” Worship 81 (2007): 249 -67.


 “Ten Top Worship Planning Ideas from John Calvin, Reformed Worship 92 (June, 2009): 34–35.