This book provides an important contribution to the understanding of the significant religious changes that took place in the course of the sixteenth century. The studies in this volume cover a wide range of subjects which reveal a common source in the methods of propaganda.

With contributions by Denis Crouzet, Francis Higman, Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard, Marc Vénard, Bernard Roussel, Jean Loup Lemaître, Alain Tallon, Leonardo Cohen, Nadine Kuperty-Tsur, Max Engammare, François Lestringant, Nicole Hochner, Raymond A. Mentzer, Robert Sauzet, Myriam Greilsammer, Nicole Lemaitre, Jacques Le Brun, Pierre Bonniffet, Edith Weber, Roger Zuber, Isabelle Martin and Gabriel Guarino