Montaigne (In Our Time)
1580 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Essays of Michel de Montaigne. Born near Bordeaux in 1533, Montaigne retired from a life of public service aged 38 and began to write. He called these short works 'essais', or 'attempts'; they deal with an eclectic range of subjects, from the dauntingly weighty to the apparently trivial.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1580
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)