# Atrocity and Religion in European Memory

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Alec Ryrie FBA
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Religion
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/atrocity-and-religion-european-memory)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Everyone Expects the Spanish Inquisition: The Making of Spain’s 'Black Legend'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-atrocity-and-religion-european-memory/2d6113cd0e85) (YouTube)
2. [How the English Learned to Hate Catholics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-atrocity-and-religion-european-memory/fe1fc1712019) (YouTube)
3. [How to Survive a Massacre in Europe’s Wars of Religion](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-atrocity-and-religion-european-memory/1cd5fdc2a84f) (YouTube)
4. [The Japanese Martyrs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-atrocity-and-religion-european-memory/ac1cd998458d) (YouTube)
5. [Choosing Religious Atrocities in Ireland](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-atrocity-and-religion-european-memory/ed9047817276) (YouTube)
6. [Forgotten Victims from the Age of Atrocity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-atrocity-and-religion-european-memory/173a401ee197) (YouTube)