Analysis of Lucien Febvre's The Problem of Unbelief in the 16th Century

What is the past and what can we really know about it? Relying on his groundbreaking technique championing ‘problem-based history,’ Febvre explores whether 16th-century French writer François Rabelais was he really one of France’s first atheists. Febvre's thorough research on Rabelais and the times he lived in challenges this accepted view.