The Spanish Inquisition: Spain's "Black Legend" Spain became a byword for cruelty during the 16th and 17th centuries. Professor Ryrie will explore this dark history and highlight some forgotten areas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqdvyXHhwI Spain became a byword for cruelty in much of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, whether it was the brutality of American colonisation, the tyranny of the Spanish Inquisition or the horrors of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands. This lecture will survey this 'black legend' and ask what made it so enduring -- and why some parts of the story, such as the Inquisition's genocidal campaign against Spanish Jews, received so much less attention than others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqdvyXHhwI * * * How the English learned to hate Catholics Medieval England was proudly Catholic, but after the Reformation, anti-catholic prejudice came to be a cornerstone of English and then British identity. Medieval England was proudly Catholic and ostentatiously loyal to Rome. But from the late sixteenth century until recent times -- and even now -- anti-Catholic prejudice has been a cornerstone of English and British identity. This lecture will look at how this prejudice grew out of the persecution of Protestants in the 1550s, at the idealistic historian who crystallised it, and at the political crises, real and invented, which turned his text into a paranoiacs' charter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vLdToJ1YdM * * * How to be an Atheist in Medieval Europe Alec Ryrie takes a tour of medieval unbelief, showing why some believed that God was being used to swindle and manipulate them. A lecture by Professor Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 27 September 2018 https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-an... There was no intellectually sophisticated or articulate 'atheism' in the Middle Ages, but there was plenty of raw scepticism and incredulity. Church courts regularly heard blasphemy cases which went as far as outright denial of God. This lecture will take a tour of medieval unbelief, showing how and why some medieval people defied the powerful orthodoxies of their day: fired not by intellectual or philosophical doubts but by suspicion that 'God' was being used to swindle and manipulate them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb5mYqnKFlI * * * How to Survive a Massacre in Europe's Wars of Religion Europe's Wars of Religion were fought against entire populations and punctuated by atrocities. How were/are they remembered in the past and present? A lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 5 February 2020 6:00pm UK Time https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-an... Europe's Wars of Religion were fought against entire populations, and were punctuated by events remembered as atrocities: such as the siege of Leiden in 1573-4 or, most notoriously, the St Bartholomew's Day Massacres in France in 1572. This lecture will ask how these events came to be so notorious, how and why they were remembered on each side, and how they shaped the history of civil conflict and ideas of coexistence and nationhood in the societies that endured them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjwBBBITitE * * * How to be a Shakespearean Atheist Shakespeare made atheists uncomfortably compelling to 16th-century England. How did Europe find ways of distancing itself from religion? A lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 24 January 2019 * * * How the Reformation Trained Us to be Sceptics Catholics and Protestants taught their people to doubt the other side. It was all too easy to conclude that all religions were equally true or equally false. A lecture by Alec Ryrie, Gresham Professor of Divinity 1 November 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp0V-EkUW_s * * * Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website. -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 <https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha> TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl