16th-century anti-Protestantism
The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in particular to papal authority, arising from what were perceived to be errors, abuses, and discrepancies by the Catholic Church. The Reformation was the start of Protestantism and the split of the Western Church into Protestantism and what is now the Roman Catholic Church.
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The Diet of Worms
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Diet of Worms where the Holy Roman Emperor demanded Martin Luther explain his attacks on the Catholic Church. The ensuing arguments helped trigger the Reformation.
12 October 2006
Featuring: Diarmaid MacCulloch, David Bagchi, Charlotte Methuen
The Spanish Inquisition
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish Inquisition, whose defense of medieval orthodoxy is a story of heresy, torture, courage, imprisonment, exile and death.
22 June 2006
Featuring: John Edwards, Alexander Murray, Michael Alpert