Costas Gaganakis teaches Early Modern European History at the Department of History, University of Athens, Greece. He specializes in the social and cultural history of Early Modern France, with main emphasis in the French Wars of Religion. He is the author of The War of Words. Religious dispute and propaganda in the French Religious Wars (in Greek, Athens, Nefeli, 2003). Other publications: “Religious zeal and Political Expediency on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion”, Historein, 6, 2006, “Stairway to heaven: Calvinist grief and redemption in the French Wars of Religion”, Ηistorein, 8, 2008, “Thinking about History in the European 16^th Century: La Popelinière and his quest for ‘perfect history’”, Historein, 10, 2010. His forthcoming book has the title, Thucydides or Eusebius? Protestant Historiography in France during the Wars of Religion.