An Introduction to 16th-Century French Literature and Thought: Other Times, Other Places (New Readings")

The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's "Essays", Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. This book introduces this literature and thought through an apparent paradox.