Culture Wars (TRIH ep 46)
1954 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the long historical roots and character of "culture wars," debating whether the phenomenon is essentially modern (coined in Bismarckian Germany) or as old as history. They trace continuities from Late Antiquity—examining the Altar of Victory dispute, Ambrose versus Symmachus and the rise of Christian universalism—through Byzantine iconoclasm, the Reformation and 18th-century statue culture, to modern Americanized culture wars. They argue Christi...
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