Protestant - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:38:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Protestant - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The Troubles (article by Jeff Wallenfeld) https://historylab.es/the-troubles-article-by-jeff-wallenfeld/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-troubles-article-by-jeff-wallenfeld Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:29 +0000 https://historylab.es/the-troubles-article-by-jeff-wallenfeld/ Also called Northern Ireland conflict, it was a violent conflict from about 1968 to 1998 in Northern Ireland between the overwhelmingly Protestant unionists (loyalists), who desired the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, and the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic of Ireland.

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]]> Marked by street fighting, sensational bombings, sniper attacks, roadblocks, and internment without trial, the confrontation had the characteristics of a civil war, notwithstanding its textbook categorization as a “low-intensity conflict.” Some 3,600 people were killed and more than 30,000 more were wounded before a peaceful solution, which involved the governments of both the United Kingdom and Ireland, was effectively reached in 1998, leading to a power-sharing arrangement in the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont.

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]]> Five centuries after reformation, Catholic-Protestant divide in Western Europe has faded https://historylab.es/five-centuries-after-reformation-catholic-protestant-divide-in-western-europe-has-faded/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-centuries-after-reformation-catholic-protestant-divide-in-western-europe-has-faded Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/five-centuries-after-reformation-catholic-protestant-divide-in-western-europe-has-faded/ Report by the Pew Research Center

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]]> The survey finds that the prevailing view among Catholics and Protestants in Western Europe is that they are more similar religiously than they are different. And across a continent that once saw long and bloody religious wars, both Protestants and Catholics now overwhelmingly express willingness to accept each other as neighbors – and even as family members.

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]]> St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre https://historylab.es/st-bartholomews-day-massacre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=st-bartholomews-day-massacre Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/st-bartholomews-day-massacre/ Painting which depicts the famous massacre of the Huguenots which took place on the Night of San Bartolomeo.

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]]> François Dubois, a French Huguenot painter of the Fontainbleau School, depicts the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. The painting shows two incidents from the massacre frequently seen in other depictions in popular prints and book illustrations: the body of Huguenot leader Gaspard de Coligny hangs out of a window at the rear to the right, and is also depicted decapitated on the ground under the window, with the Duke of Guise standing behind it. To the left rear, Catherine de Medici, emerges from the Louvre Palace and inspects a heap of bodies.

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