# Civic-religious regulation of festivals and workdays reshapes fuel and work rhythms Date: 1548 ## The fact Genevan reform under [Calvin](/people/john-calvin)’s influence abolished many traditional feast days and policed Sabbath work, reshaping household fuel and labour rhythms. The instrument is that calendar-and-work regulation, not a coal ministry. It is one event. ## Context Liturgical calendars have material effects. Archives heritage and the Cambridge Companion independently note feast abolition and Sabbath enforcement. Unique cordwood series are not invented here. John Calvin’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Conventional years are 1509–1564. Surviving public files are later museum pages, consistory editions, Meeter Center collections, and encyclopedias. Calvin did not typeset those later pages. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Geneva archives heritage and the Cambridge Companion independently describe feast abolition and Sabbath work rules. Official or archival record: Archives d’État de Genève (https://www.ge.ch/organisation/archives-etat-geneve; République et Canton de Genève). ## Significance Medium confidence on fuel effects; high on feast abolition. ## What is established and what is not Established: many feasts were abolished and Sabbath work policed. Not established: a measured winter fuel shortfall uniquely caused by Calvin. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by John Calvin. They are not a public rating. John Calvin did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Feast abolition is not the Ordinances text twin alone. Keep calendar policing off 20 November 1541 as a pure duplicate. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of John Calvin. ## People - John Calvin: https://factrail.ai/people/john-calvin ## Drivers - Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security ## Sources - https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521816475 - https://www.ge.ch/organisation/archives-etat-geneve ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-energy-wood-fuel-discipline