Diarmaid MacCulloch, William Dalrymple | Jaipur Literature Festival

The Reformation: Europe’s House Divided: Diarmaid MacCulloch & William Dalrymple
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, TV presenter and author. His History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years won the 2010 Cundill Prize, the world’s largest prize for history, and his latest BBC2 series was Sex and the Church. He was knighted in 2012. His biography of Thomas Cromwell is forthcoming.
William Dalrymple is a bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, White Mughals, The Last Mughal, Nine Lives, and most recently, Return of a King: An Indian Army in Afghanistan. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone/Crossword Award for nonfiction, and has, prior to the shortlisting of Return of a King, been longlisted three times for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In September 2016, a Hindustani translation of The Last Mughal was released as Aakhri Mughal. His latest book is Kohinoor, co-written with Anita Anand. Dalrymple is one of the founders and a co-director of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.
The Reformation: Europe’s House Divided
Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History. Diarmaid MacCulloch's classic, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700. charted a seismic shift in European culture that marked the beginning of the modern world. At a time when men and women were prepared to kill. and be killed. for their faith, the Reformation tore the western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account Of these epochal events. MacCuIIoch's history brilliantly re created the religious battles of priests. monarchs. scholars and politicians from the zealous small_town monk Martin Luther nailing his Theses to the of a Wittenburg church to the radical Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, through to Thomas Cranmer, who was martyred for his reforms, and the ambitious Philip II, unwavering in his campaign against Europe's 'heretics'. Weaving together the many strands of Reformation and Counter_Reformation, ranging widely across Europe and even to the new world, MacCulloch also reveals how these upheavals affected everyday lives_overturning ideas of love, sex, death and the supernatural, and shaping the modern age.
Presented by The British Academy
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The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.
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Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.
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[@frankdsouza2425]

If Prof MacCulloch delivers a thousand Lectures (Ed: He probaberly has), audiences will still say, "THIS was his finest !!" Thank you William Dalrymple and Thank you CZcams, for although being seated in Jaipur would have been Heaven, listening to this on one's smartphone, was Bliss.

[@EvaDoran1]

Professor McCulloch is AWESOME !!!!!

[@andrewcrispyful]

Great communicator. This man stands out because he makes history alive again

[@johnathanha9340]

The fundamental question is how can Martin Luther confirm that his way of following god and his perception of salvation leads to real salvation? If God makes decision on salvation, nobody knows who he will choose. People might say they did follow what bible say, but his decision might be different.
The mass is believed to be the summary of life of Christ offered by God. Thought those souls who were going through wrong way, could reverse their destination through the mass was partly right but the mass alone would not salvage or exit purgatory if human do not convert away from worldly desires. This is one of the gravest assumption about the mass and purgatory the protestantism made.
Purgatory is not an conception designed to defy the existence of hell. The hell is the final destination for the souls who did not convert to what god said right. It is like the waiting room for the show entertainers who do final revision for what they prepared.
The purgatory is the final place to look back in lifetime and do change the little bits to whatever they did in the life time. It is the final rehearsal of life but not to avoid the moment if judgement.
Protestants should get the concept of purgatory right first.

[@skronked]

That Intro guy's purse is awesome!!

[@karin1616]

I can´t agree more. Martin Luther King´s wing of protestantism just aims at reaching a compromise between believers and non-believers in order to pursue their idea of oneness. It can´t be compared to the original teachings of Martin Luther.

[@wstevenson4913]

Very clever bloke but his presentation style is a bit too theatrical