The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century by Lucien Febvre; Beatrice Gottlieb (Translator)- This link opens in a new window
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ISBN: 0674708253
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Febvre's purpose at first was polemical: he set out to demolish the notion that Rabelais was a covert atheist. To expose this anachronistic view, he examined the ideas, information, beliefs, and values of Rabelais and his contemporaries. The result is a work of extraordinary richness of texture, enlivened by a wealth of concrete details—a compelling intellectual portrait of the period by a historian of rare insight, great intelligence, and vast learning.