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  • Published: 2 September 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140285345
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $55.00

Reformation

Europe's House Divided 1490-1700




The definitive history of the most important event in European history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the French Revolution is coming in paperback.

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.

  • Published: 2 September 2004
  • ISBN: 9780140285345
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $55.00

About the author

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography Award, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize; Reformation: Europe's House Divided (2003) won the Wolfson Prize for History and the British Academy Book Prize. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years and the BBC television series based on it appeared in 2009; the book won the Cundill Prize, the world's largest history prize, in 2010. His television series How God Made the English aired on BBC2 in March 2012. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was knighted in the New Year's Honours List of 2012.

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