Diarmaid MacCulloch - The Reformation: A History

Praise for The Reformation

Deserves to become the standard history of early modern Europe religion and its legacy, synthesizing and assessing a quarter-century of international scholarshipLike the best of historians, he helps us to understand why we are; and why we need not be so.

Ronald Hutton, The Independent

Handled here with brilliance, this is the kind of history that normally gives even academic historians vertigo.

The Economist

Wide-ranging, richly layered and captivatingThis spectacular intellectual history reminds us that the Reformation grew out of the Renaissance, and provides a compelling glimpse of the cultural currents that formed the background to reform. MacCullochs magisterial book should become the definitive history of the Reformation.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Diarmaid MacCulloch is the author of Christianity, the winner of the Cundill Prize in History and selected by The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of the Year, as well as Thomas Cranmer, winner of the Whitbread Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize. Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University, he was brought up in a country rectory in East Anglia and now lives in Oxford, England.

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For Simon Yarrow
with whom I discovered Preston Bissett

PLATES

Chancel arch figure, Preston Bissett (Photo: author)

People of Calicut, from Triumph des Kaisers Maximilian I (Vienna, 18834), no. 131/124 (By permission, Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Vulgate text: Biblia Sacra (Lyon, 1511) (Authors possession)

Doom painting, Wenhaston (Photo: Dr Katherine Whale, by permission from her and the Council of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History)

Statue of Charlemagne, Grossmunster, Zrich (Hochbauamt Kanton Zurich, Fotoarchiv)

Huldrych Zwingli ( Swiss National Museum, Zrich, neg. no. 109736. By permission)

St Sebaldus shrine, St Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg: J. Chipps Smith, German Sculpture of the late Renaissance c. 15201580: art in an age of uncertainty (Princeton University Press, 1994) (Photo: Sackler Library, Oxford, Princeton University Press, reproduced by permission)

Philip of Spain and Mary at the Last Supper, St Janskerk Gouda (Photo: Wim de Groot; Stichting Fonds Goudse Glazen, reproduced by permission)

Charles V (Prado Museum, Madrid. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)

Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, Woburn Abbey ( the Marquess of Tavistock and the Trustees of the Bedford Estates, reproduced by permission)

South porch gable, Priston, Somerset (Photo: author)

Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Hope 66752, by permission)

A papal blessing at St Peters Rome (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce Prints Portfolio 141 (93), by permission)

St Ursula with her virgins: N. Circignani, Ecclesi Anglican tropha (Rome, 1584) (By permission, Bodleian Library, Oxford)

English torture of Catholic missionary clergy (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Douce Prints Portfolio 141 (471), by permission)

John Calvin by Johann Michael Pchler ( Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, reproduced by permission)

Panorama of Amsterdam: A. M. Mallet, Description de LUnivers (5 vols, Paris 1683) (By permission, Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Cologne Cathedral, 1824 ( Klnisches Stadtmuseum, Kln, reproduced by permission)

Our Lady of Victory, Bila Hora, Prague (Photo: Maria Dowling and Edmund Green)

Auto da f, Spain (Bodleian Library, Douce Portfolio 141 (471), by permission)

Siege of Heidelberg, 1622 (Bodleian Library, Douce prints E.2.3 (53), by permission)

Elizabethan plate: Charsfield, Suffolk (England) (By permission of the Council of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History)

Chalice: Staunton Harold, Nottinghamshire (England) (By permission, the National Trust)

Ceiling paintings, Tancs parish church, Transylvania (Photo: Andrew Spicer)

Burntisland, Fife (Scotland), Mariners Gallery (Photo: Margo Todd)

Map of Palestine: The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ (London, 1606) (Authors possession)

Rood screen, Roxton, Bedfordshire (England) (Photo: Eamon Duffy)

Dutch bilingual psalter: Les CL Pseaulmes David/De CL Psalmen Davids (Amsterdam, c. 1640) (Authors possession)

Mary overcoming heresy, Naples Cathedral ( Archivi Alinari, Firenze)

John Winthrop ( Massachusetts Historical Society; Bridgeman Art Library, reproduced by permission)

Derry Cathedral: Reliquary, New Series vol. 5 (1891)

Anna Maria van Schurman (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Douce Prints Portfolio 134 (227), by permission)

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

The Wittenberg Reformers in their early years. Martin Luther (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Hope Collection 66827, by permission), Philipp Melanchthon, J. Boissard, Icones (1597)

The leading Reformers of Strassburg: J. Boissard, Icones (1597). Martin Bucer. Matthias Zell (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Hope Collection 68868, by permission)