The Printing Press and the Conspiracy Theory

i was studying recently the wars of religion in france in the 15 hundreds, and it starts essentially with the printings. One gets published is overwhelmingly conspiracy teris. It's like some of the first things that were oter than the classics. Catholics pread rumors about protestants eating babies and stuff. And it was just like what you do because is the war view is ther this blackand ite think there are the forces of evil out there whoare out to ruin everything that's good.