Apology for Raymond Sebond

An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne''s essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond''s fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of personal melancholy that followed the death of Montaigne''s own father in 1568, and explores contemporary Christianity in prose that...