Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the ways in which military siege was represented in sixteenth century as space of utopia and counter-utopia. The common point between the two sieges analyzed is the fact that both were moved against religiously minority populations with utopian and apocalyptic content settings. Both reports allow us to glimpse the sixteenth-century European city as a privileged space for utopian constructions, while the mechanics of rejection of utopia and criminalization of changes in social ordering are underlined. The research presupposes a preoccupation with the subject of historical memory and how their construction can produce ideologically conditioned speeches.
Keywords:
Utopia and Counter-Utopia; Anabaptists in Münster; Huguenots in Sancerre