https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/A-total-history-of-the-Saint-Bartholomew-s-Day-Massacre https://booksandideas.net/A-total-history-of-the-Saint-Bartholomew-s-Day-Massacre 2026-06-09T07:20:00Z text/html en Alexandre Goderniaux History Wars of Religion violence Cairn.info <p>Thirty years after <i>La Nuit de la Saint-Barthélemy (Saint Bartholomew's Night)</i>, Denis Crouzet revisits the massacres of August 1572—a collective purge, a royal enigma, and a popular initiative, which his new book illuminates with bold erudition by reintroducing confessional violence, with all its historical depth, into the story.</p> https://booksandideas.net/A-War-of-Signs https://booksandideas.net/A-War-of-Signs 2025-05-22T07:30:00Z text/html en Alexandre Goderniaux History Wars of Religion violence sociology signs Cairn.info Montaigne <p>From 1562 to 1598, as the Wars of Religion deprived France of its reference points, strategies for mastering, disguising, and eliminating religious signs became necessary for survival. External markers of identity provide crucial insight into what civil wars do to a society.</p> https://booksandideas.net/A-micro-history-of-the-Saint-Bartholomew-s-Day-Massacre https://booksandideas.net/A-micro-history-of-the-Saint-Bartholomew-s-Day-Massacre 2024-03-19T08:00:00Z text/html en Thierry Amalou organized crime History state Wars of Religion violence state-crime Cairn.info <p>Jérémie Foa has written a history of the “other side” of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Nameless people, thrown into the Seine or buried in mass graves, succumbed to the blows of killers as well as to collective forgetting, which the historian seeks to remedy. This is an important book on mass violence.</p>