- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- Alexandra Schäfer
- Published:
- 2014
- Publisher:
- Transcript Verlag
Situated as it was at the centre of such swirling emotions, revolutionary implications, festering resentments and indeterminate intellectual repercussions, the Massacre of St. Bartholomew became a legend almost before it happened, and it grew with the telling and with the passage of time.1The topos of massacre as a mem or y box and the French Wars of ReligionThe French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) were some of the most brutal, important and captivating confessional conflicts in the sixteenth century. 2 On the night of the 24 th August 1572, one of the most crucial violent events took 1 KELLEY, 1972KELLEY, , p. 1342. 2 . 2 The confessional conflict was entangled with many other domains, among them the preservation of the Valois dynasty, the concurrence between noble houses, the recovering from recent war, financial problems, failed reforms and the fight about hegemony in Europe against Habsburg Spain.
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- What is "How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois’ St . Bartholomew's Day Massacre" about?
- Situated as it was at the centre of such swirling emotions, revolutionary implications, festering resentments and indeterminate intellectual repercussions, the Massacre of St.
- Who wrote "How to Visualise an Event that is not Representable? The Topos of Massacre in François Dubois’ St . Bartholomew's Day Massacre"?
- Alexandra Schäfer