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The Politics of Belief

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Documentary series exploring Protestantism. Tristram Hunt looks at how a debate about religion in 16th Century Germany sparked a political revolution.

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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Wed 5 Mar 2008 03:20

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