Polemic and Literature Surrounding French Wars of Religion

Engaging the continuous casting andrecasting of opposing worldviews, thiscollection of essays examines literature's useof polemic and polemic's use of literature asseminal intellectual developments stemmingfrom the religious and social turmoil thatcharacterized sixteenth-century France.Contributions explore both literary texts and moreintentionally polemical texts that fall outsideof the traditional literary genres.