Diarmaid MacCulloch - Reformation: Europes House Divided, 1490-1700

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REFORMATION

MacCulloch is a wonderful storyteller he places people at the heart of historical change astonishingly learned and rich Daniel Swift, Spectator

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

We are all children of the Reformation and this magisterial study shows us why in its remarkable scope, both of width and depth an astonishing delight Bernard Green, The Tablet, Books of the Year

Once embarked upon it, I found it impossible to put down Richard Chartres, Church Times

A masterly synthesis Rich, arresting, frequently provocative and always interesting This compelling and thought-provoking account is not just for those interested in Reformation history. Anyone interested in what humanity can do with a religious creed should read it Lucy Wooding, The Tablet

Magisterial What is particularly impressive about MacCullochs book is its freshness, and the skill with which it manoeuvres through sometimes complex and arcane ideas Sunday Times, Books of the Year

It is difficult to imagine anybody writing a better book about the Reformation. It is even handed, learned and profound. A serious work of scholarship, it is admirably accessible. With great skill, MacCulloch enables his readers to enter an intellectual world that seems light years from our own, and helps us to appreciate the complexity of theological controversies that might seem abstruse but which were at that time a matter of life and death Karen Armstrong, Los Angeles Times

This is a big, bold book. The author has woven his own research, and the researches of many others, into a synoptic panorama, strong in human interest. MacCullochs Reformation looks set to become a book like Carlyles French Revolution, necessary and unavoidable to anyone interested; and it is, additionally, the work of an historians historian, splendidly accessible C. W. Kemp, Prayer Book Society Journal

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Diarmaid MacCulloch was brought up in a country rectory in East Anglia and studied in Cambridge, doing his doctoral research with Sir Geoffrey Elton. He is a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His books include Suffolk and the Tudors (1986; winner of the Royal Historical Societys Whitfield Prize), The Later Reformation in England 15471603 (1990), Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety (1995), Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996; winner of the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize), and Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (2000).

DIARMAID MacCULLOCH

EUROPES HOUSE DIVIDED

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ISBN: 978-0-14-192660-5

For Simon Yarrow
with whom I discovered Preston Bissett

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

. Bernardino Ochino: J. F. Rein, Das gesamte Augspurgische Evangelische Ministerium in Bildern und schriften von den ersten Jahren der Reformation Lutheri bis auf 1748 (Augsburg, 1749)

I am very grateful to the Arts and Humanities Research Board of the United Kingdom for providing me with the opportunity for extra study leave which was enormously helpful in writing this book. Their generosity was equalled by that of my colleagues in the Oxford Theology Faculty, who with their habitual grace took on administrative and teaching burdens, making it possible for me to enjoy a year of uninterrupted reading and writing. My German teacher, Mathilde Willi, and my fellows in our class during my sabbatical genially put up with my slow progress in the language. I am sorry that Lord Runcie, former Primate of All England, did not live to read this volume, because our conversations over more than a decade did much to widen my horizons and order my thoughts; he remains in my memory the model of what a prince of the Church should be. My thanks go to Stuart Proffitt for his friendly encouragement and unerring publishers eye for pedantic assumptions, obscurities and clumsy or redundant prose. My literary agent Felicity Bryan, equally eagle-eyed in scanning my text, deserves especial thanks for the wise and creative advice that directly led to my beginning this project. Any remaining infelicities are of course my responsibility and not theirs. Many professional colleagues have shown friendship in their conversation and replies to many importunacies as I have been constructing the book: some of them have even taken on the penitential task of reading drafts of the text. I am indebted to them all, but particularly to Simon Adams, Margaret Bent, Francis Bremer, Owen Chadwick, Michael Chisholm, John Cooper, Maria Crciun, Maria Dowling, John Edwards, Stefan Ehrenpreis, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Mary Fissell, Thomas Freeman, Malcolm Gaskill, Olwen Hufton, Ronald Hutton, Philip Kennedy, Ian Maclean, Judith Maltby, Peter McCullough, Graeme Murdock, Bill Naphy, Alec Ryrie, Peter Sherlock, Andrew Spicer, David Starkey, Ronald Truman and Katherine Whale. I am grateful to Craig DAlton, Gregory Graybill, Stephen Hampton and William Wizeman for permission to cite their unpublished dissertations. I must also salute the librarians of Oxford University, who so heroically transcend their chaotic inheritance of inappropriate buildings to provide a superb service for their readers. I thank all those who helped me with pictures, especially Susan Harris, Alex Newson and Ian Campbell and his colleagues. Lastly, after many past expressions of thanks to Mark Achurch, I now look back over nearly two decades of his loving support of my obsessions in history.