Historia de las Guerras de Religión

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the so-called Wars of Religion rocked Europe. The succession of serious and bloody conflicts caused a collective trauma that lasted for centuries. Fights in the name of a God with a country, at a time when freedom of thought was nothing more than an entelechy and whose maxim, "One king, one law and one faith", constituted the absolute principle on which everything revolved in the Old Continent. With her agile and rigorous pen, Professor María Lara deciphers -in a theological, philosophical, anthropological and historical key- the secret beliefs of the Baroque in a brilliant work, called to become the reference literary code on the limits of religion in this crucial stage of the Modern Age. An exhaustive investigation, forged between the kilometric shelves of the Widener Library of Harvard University, which also includes valuable primary testimonies of the misunderstood beings of the 17th century: free spirits who dared to think differently, to challenge conventions, to posit ground-breaking theories... People who suffered brutal repression for their ideas, and without whom the Enlightenment, the movement that opened the doors to the contemporary world, would not have been possible.