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
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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.
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