Варфоломеевская ночь: событие и споры

Thus, the colloquium, and then the collection are not an attempt to give a comprehensive answer to a question of the causes of the massacre or to determine any historiografical positions, but a synthesis of the general panorama of the event and ways of its description from various research and thematic prospects. The collection in a definite sense fills a lacuna at the historiography of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day formed after an allocation of the research of a social problematic in a separate direction, caused break up of the integral description and a significant differentiation of research estimations of the event of August 24,1572. The editorial board hopes, that the efforts of the authors didn’t go for nothing and a reader will manage to generate his notion of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day.