Blood Wedding: The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in History and Memory by Barbara Diefendorf

Barbara Diefendorf, a professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, discusses causes and implications of the 16th-century Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants in France and the myth-making power of history.
Hosted by Boston University on October 25, 2006.

[@CastelDawn]

you can skip to 4:20

[@esmerlda199516]

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[@iska788]

Thank you !

[@rocksandoil2241]

I am descendant of Huguenots who fled France to Netherlands then London where they got ships to take them to Virginia and there they founded Manakintown.

[@js357s]

Thank you for making these public.

[@cliffordishii3738]

Biblical Christians have endured many hard times and persecution, and we will continue to endure and survive any persecution and hard times in the future

[@jimmycricket7385]

A king intent on creating a massacre might well fire indiscriminately into a crowd containing his own soldiers. Similar tactics were used when Western backed insurgents fired randomly at police and demonstrators in Syria to inflame both sides who naturally thought the other side was targeting them. To assume a King would care about individual members of his own army is rather naive.

[@michellediederich3031]

Thank you so much for posting this !! I loved every second!!! Very kind of you to share with those of us who can not attend college!!!! God Bless You and Yours

[@levinb1]

Such a good and informative presentation!!

[@billy1132]

After 24 spiritually dark yrs in the roman cath chch, in 1996 i read the holy bible n came home to CHRIST JESUS in bible based churches!! Praise Our Lord GOD JESUS🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@frederiquecouture3924]

Great Pleasure... How I wish we could have a virtual library...

[@elipercival7354]

how does she not say anything about cathine's family was a pope that was killed when he was selling indulgences???????? this lady forgot to set the scene about that as she should!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@josephr.gainey2079]

46:17 "We do not raise monuments to rebels, not unless we've decided their cause was just."

[@lindamartin9224]

I have learned of having some ancestry to the Huguenots. So I have been watching a lot of programs and lectures on this subject. I have always loved learning about various times and events in history... but knew next to nothing about the Huguenots. So I am getting quite an education! Thank you!

[@alancollins7390]

Linda Martin many from Northern Ireland have Huguenot ancestry like my wife surename vennard

[@wiskeeamazingdancer4964]

There are ancestors of Huguenots all over the Americas as well.

[@bdell519]

I too, have French Huguenot genetics & history

[@Kitiwake]

@@alancollins7390 yes, they helped to continue the hatred of Catholics for centuries up unto today.

[@willsess7340]

According to a letter Duke Henri D'Énghien I, wrote to Cardinal Charles Bourbon in 1572, rumors had it that either an officer under de Guise's command Charles de Maurevert shot at Coligny, or it was the first Jacques Beaumont d'Vienne, ex-lover of Margot of Valois, leader of the original garde of forty five and later one of the main bodyguards of Henri IV, who blamed Coligny for the end of his liaison with Margot as a direct result of her engagement to Henri of Navarre. He also accused both de Medici and her son the then King Charles IX Beaumont was later quoted as saying, if i had shot him, he'd been dead. He was a veteran of Arques and Ivry [1590] and was instrumental in the founding of Henri Iv's mounted Carabins, the later garde musketeers. of LOUIS XIII. also in 1572 there were no muskets but the older carabins or arquebuses [shorter than a musket]. Muskets were not in use or invented until the early 17th century [ca 1615-20].

[@hubertyoung1938]

For more details, the great work by E. G. White, The Great Controversy. The chapter on, " The Bible and The French Revolution."

[@denniswilson6642]

Ms Diefendorf was fairly accurate on the events surrounding the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. She seems to miss the point that one side had the power and used it to anilate the other having actually used false pretenses to get the leaders of the Huguenots to be in one place. This act plus the elimination of the Catholics during the French Revolution made France a secular humanist nation. The collusion of church and State never comes to a good end.

[@agentzero323]

Catholicism is still practiced by 41% of the population in France, so i wouldnt say the revolution got rid of them. Theres still more Frenchman who declare than Catholic than those who claim to be ireligious. Personally id say this event had no impact French other than extinguishing the Protestant movement forever

[@davidinchcliff4560]

Read the great controversy by ELLEN WHITE and learn hidden history changed by the jesuits.

[@Kitiwake]

@@agentzero323 from anecdotal evidence it's more like 4%. The others claim it culturally but don't practice it. As for your "collusion" remark...an unfounded comment that the association pre revolution was secret. In fact and history it was open and self evident in the old alliance between king, aristocracy and church.

[@363Magi]

Catharine, her son Henri and the royal family were Black Magick Occultist.......

[@holographicsol2747]

thank you. every part of history helps people potentially see and therofore learn about ourselves. Then hopefully we can do better. not to better another but to better ourselves.

[@nannasbraindump6343]

With such a long intro, I would be late on purpose..

[@gtg843]

Enthralling. I had only recently heard about this massacre. Although I had thought France a tolerant nation. Obviously, like us all, there are the blood stains of history to face

[@fainatselnik267]

Interesting lecture that gives a good refresh on political forces of Bartholomew massacre. Limited religious freedom edict by Catherine de Medici was a catalyst of the event. To say that by the end of almost 50 years of the religious wars, the status of religious freedom/ practice was ironically exactly the same as she granted would be rather superficial. The circumstances of original edict is that she never intended to fulfill it - it was appeasement in complicated triangle of Geases - weaken royal power due to her regency status- considerable feudal and prominent military figures that went to the Protestant side as an opposition to the existed power. Overall, it was a Trojan horse. The importance of Huguenots movement was not in numbers but in complete change of the religion landscape. It was minority to reckon with. And as usual the power selected extermination. What make it really gruesome - to get the key figures in one place they used the wedding that suppose to seal the piece. And when the murders started, it was complete elimination of the families - from old people to kids. it wasn’t only Coligny who got shot at night, it’s was gutting of civil population brutally and with gusto - after all the faith needs to be restored in purity.

[@fionaatkinson2221]

Please edit the text

[@josephr.gainey2079]

49:53 "Suffering has a long memory."

[@bethanychristiansen9819]

wow I hate IB like the HI is literally the worst thing to ever be invented jeez

[@charlottekerns5633]

I thought this was an interesting subject and explanation of the events of that era. I would be interested in knowing how this affected immigration to other countries.Would England or Holland or Western Germany, have seen an influx of Huguenots?

[@drizer4real]

Holland had its own influx of huegenots/protestants after the Spanish reconquered Antwerp . That triggered the Dutch Golden Age, as those protestants brought a lot of money and knowledge along as they fled to the north

[@Kitiwake]

And Ireland.. where they were given lands and buildings confiscated from Catholic families and monasteries.

[@ishenicole9987]

Pleaseeeee too much introduction... Too long!

[@Philosophia-cf8qd]

disappointing. Very.