Book description
The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past
1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just
European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems,
personal relations - everything - was turned upside down. Just about
everything which followed in European history can be traced back in some
way to the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation which it provoked.
The Reformation is where the modern world painfully and dramatically
began, and MacCulloch's great history of it is recognised as the best
modern account. Diarmaid MacCulloch is a Fellow of St. Cross College,
Oxford, and Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University.
His Thomas Cranmer won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait
Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. He is the author most recently of
Tudor Church Militant (2000).
