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Polemic in the Reformation: Lessons for Today

Wed, March 31, 2021
Dinner Program
S. Amanda Eurich

Amanda Eurich, professor of history at Western Washington University and author of "Polemic's Purpose," will discuss how the practice of polemic in the Protestant Reformation polarized public discourse and civic society. The ways in which theologians on both sides of the religious divide—Catholic and Protestant—weaponized word and image against their rivals is a cautionary tale for the 21st century.

Amanda Eurich is a professor of history at Western Washington University and author of "The Economics of Power: The House of Foix-Navarre-Albret during the Wars of Religion" and numerous essays on the politics and culture of religious violence in early modern France. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and most recently, the Meeter Center of Calvin University. Her current research explores the radicalization of religious identity through the writings and correspondence of the sixteenth-century jurist, Jean de Coras, known to Anglophone audiences as the judge who presided over the trial of Martin Guerre.

 

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