Dr Jon Balserak is a top Calvin scholar and early modern historian. He is currently Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois Chicago and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In this episode Dr Balserak shares how he came to be interested in Calvin, and discusses his super intriguing new book Geneva’s Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563; Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France. 

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