Publications

AUTHORED BOOKS

The Making of Modern Marriage: Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchâtel, 1550-1800. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Choosing Death: Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2001.

The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, forthcoming in 2009.

EDITED BOOKS

From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe. Edited and with an introduction by Jeffrey R. Watt. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004.

The Long Reformation. Edited and with an Introduction by Jeffrey R. Watt. Problems in European Civilization Series. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin (2006).

Registres du Consistoire de Genève au temps de Calvin, 1542-1544 (Volume I). Edited by Thomas Lambert and Isabella Watt. With the collaboration of Jeffrey R. Watt. Under the supervision of Robert M. Kingdon. Geneva: Droz, 1996. English edition: Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin. Translated by M. Wallace McDonald. Grand Rapids, Mich. and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2000.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

"Marriage Contract Disputes in Early Modern Neuchâtel, 1547-1806." Journal of Social History 22 (1988): 129-147.

"The Reception of the Reformation in Valangin, Switzerland, 1547-1588." Sixteenth Century Journal 20 (1989): 89-104.

"Divorce in Early Modern Neuchâtel, 1547-1806." Journal of Family History 14 (1989): 137-155.

"Women and the Consistory in Calvin's Geneva." Sixteenth Century Journal 14 (1993): 431-441.

"The Control of Marriage in Reformed Switzerland, 1600-1800." In Later Calvinism: International Perspectives. Edited by W. Fred Graham, pp. 29-53. Kirksville, Mo.: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1994.

"The Marriage Laws Calvin Drafted for Geneva." In Calvinus Sacrae Scripturae Professor: Calvin as Confessor of Holy Scripture. Edited by W. H. Neuser, pp. 245-255. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdman's, 1994.

"The Family, Love, and Suicide in Early Modern Geneva." Journal of Family History 21 (1996): 63-86.

"Calvin on Suicide." Church History 66 (1997): 463-476.

"Reformed Piety and Suicide in Geneva, 1550-1800." In The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864. Edited by John B. Roney and Martin Klauber, 111-128. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood, 1998.

"Suicide in Reformation Geneva." Archive for Reformation History 89 (1998): 227-246.

“The Impact of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.” Chapter 6 in The History of the European Family. Vol. 1: Family Life in Early Modern Times, ed. Marzio Barbagli and David I. Kertzer, 123-152. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Translated as “L’impatto della Riforma e della Controriforma,” in Storia della famiglia in Europa, vol. 1: Cinquecento alla Rivoluzione francese, ed. Barbaglio and Kertzer, 176-217. Rome and Bari: Giuseppe Laterza & Figli, 2002.

“Calvinism, Childhood, and Education: The Evidence from the Genevan Consistory.” Sixteenth Century Journal 33, 2002: 439-456.

“Childhood and Youth in the Genevan Consistory Minutes.” Calvinus Praeceptor Ecclesiae: Proceedings of the International Congress on Calvin Research, ed. Herman Selderhuis, 41-62. Geneva: Droz, 2004.

“Introduction: Toward a History of Suicide in Early Modern Europe.” In From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe, ed. Jeffrey R. Watt, 1-8. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004.

“Suicide, Gender, and Religion: The Case of Geneva.” Chapter 8 in From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe, ed. Jeffrey R. Watt, 138-157. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004.

“The Demons of Carpi: Exorcism, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in a Seventeenth-Century Convent.” Archive for Reformation History 98 (2007): 107-133.

(with Isabella M. Watt) “L’édition des recueils de délibérations: Les registres du Consistoire de Genève.” Bulletin de la Société du Protestantisme Français 153 (2007): 601-612.

“Love Magic and the Inquisition: A Case from Seventeenth-Century Italy.” Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming).

WORK IN PROGRESS

The Consistory in Calvin’s Geneva.

Last updated: August 19, 2008

Jeffrey Watt: hswatt@olemiss.edu