[Goanet] Spanish Inquisition... the English and Catholics... Europe's wars of religion... etc

2020-08-01 Thread Frederick Noronha 
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Re: [Goanet] Spanish Inquisition.

2019-12-08 Thread Frederick Noronha 
Dear Dr Adolfo, Did you view the full film? It does not give "yet another
perspective". It seriously challenges much of what we've grown to believe,
over the years, decades and even centuries. Please view it... FN

On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 01:48, Adolfo Mascarenhas  wrote:

> Message-ID:
>  <9cnpwzuyjgu7...@mail.gmail.com>
>
> hFrederick thank you for the additional reference .it gives yet
> another perspective ...it was indeed a great period of turmoil ..the
> reformation was taking a new dimension in Europe ..
> Suddenly   a few of the clergy were behaving like Godcondemning men.
> women and children to torture ...setting people on fire and actually
> enjoying it. It  reminded me of s a few Pilgrims in the Thanksgiving where
> they decided to burn Native Indians .
>
> \\\in contrast to all this ...Pope  Francis talking in  Qatar was full of
> humanity. I am copying this to Glen who gave me a hard copy some weeks ago
>
> Adolfo
>
> PS *I may have given *an* impression* that  Saint Vaz did not know how to
> write.  Ofcourse he knew to writeI have seen specimen of his writing.
>


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[Goanet] Spanish Inquisition.

2019-12-08 Thread Adolfo Mascarenhas 
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hFrederick thank you for the additional reference .it gives yet another
perspective ...it was indeed a great period of turmoil ..the
reformation was taking a new dimension in Europe ..
Suddenly   a few of the clergy were behaving like Godcondemning men.
women and children to torture ...setting people on fire and actually
enjoying it. It  reminded me of s a few Pilgrims in the Thanksgiving where
they decided to burn Native Indians .

\\\in contrast to all this ...Pope  Francis talking in  Qatar was full of
humanity. I am copying this to Glen who gave me a hard copy some weeks ago

Adolfo

PS *I may have given *an* impression* that  Saint Vaz did not know how to
write.  Ofcourse he knew to writeI have seen specimen of his writing.