The Protestant Revolution (BBC4 Series)

[The Lawspeaker]

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The Protestant Revolution - Part 1: The Politics of Belief

Four-part documentary series in which historian Tristram Hunt explores the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism. In this opening part, he uncovers how a debate about religion in 16th Century Germany (Martin Luther's challenge to the Pope) sparked a political revolution - from the bloody battlefields of medieval Germany to the Civil Wars of the 1640s in Britain, Protestantism unleashed a series of revolutions and wars that rippled across Europe.

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The Protestant Revolution - Part 2: The Godly Family

Four-part documentary series in which historian Tristram Hunt explores the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism. He looks at how Protestantism replaced the Catholic veneration of celibacy with a devotion to family life - from Martin Luther as the loving husband and father to the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury with his modern idea of marriage. Plus, the contradictory legacy of Protestantism, with its sexual equality but virulent patriarchy.

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The Protestant Revolution Part 3: A Reformation of the Mind

Four-part documentary series in which historian Tristram Hunt explores the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism. In 16th century Britain, radical Protestants triggered a great act of vandalism by wiping out Catholic monasteries, churches and artwork. But their cultural revolution went much further, leading to art galleries and the creation of the novel, as well as driving on a new scientific age that spanned the discovery of gravity to the Industrial Revolution.

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The Protestant Revolution - Part 4: No Rest for the Wicked

Four-part documentary series in which historian Tristram Hunt explores the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of ... all » Protestantism. In 16th century Britain, radical Protestants triggered a great act of vandalism by wiping out Catholic monasteries, churches and artwork. But their cultural revolution went much further, leading to art galleries and the creation of the novel, as well as driving on a new scientific age that spanned the discovery of gravity to the Industrial Revolution.

[Agrippa]

Interesting videos so far, a lot if details and knowledge packed into it, though I can't agree with the evaluation of the facts and their presentation in detail obviously