Authors: Diarmaid MacCulloch
ISBN-13: 9780670032969, ISBN-10: 0670032964
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: First American Edition
Diarmaid MacCulloch is a fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford, and a professor of the history of the Church at Oxford University. His books include The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation and the award-winning Thomas Cramner: A Life.
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation represented the greatest upheaval in Western society since the collapse of the Roman Empire a millennium before. The consequences of those shattering events are still felt todayfrom the stark divisions between (and within) Catholic and Protestant countries to the Protestant ideology that governs America, the world's only remaining superpower.
In this masterful history, Diarmaid MacCulloch conveys the drama, complexity, and continuing relevance of these events. He offers vivid portraits of the most significant individualsLuther, Calvin, Zwingli, Loyola, Henry VIII, and a number of popesbut also conveys why their ideas were so powerful and how the Reformation affected everyday lives. The result is a landmark book that will be the standard work on the Reformation for years to come. The narrative verve of The Reformation as well as its provocative analysis of American culture's debt to the period will ensure the book's wide appeal among history readers.
The Reformation is a learned, enlightening and disturbing masterwork, and likely to become the standard one-volume history. Not least among its virtues, the book faithfully reflects the variousness and confusion of the times, when it was hard to distinguish the madman from the future saint.
Preface and acknowledgments | ||
List of illustrations and maps | ||
Introduction | ||
Pt. I | A common culture | |
1 | The old church, 1490-1517 | 3 |
2 | Hopes and fears, 1490-1517 | 51 |
3 | New heaven : new earth, 1517-24 | 103 |
4 | Wooing the magistrate, 1524-40 | 154 |
5 | Reunion deferred : Catholic and Protestant, 1530-60 | 207 |
6 | Reunion scorned, 1547-70 | 264 |
Pt. II | Europe divided : 1570-1619 | |
7 | The New Europe defined, 1569-72 | 307 |
8 | The North : Protestant heartlands | 337 |
9 | The South : Catholic heartlands | 388 |
10 | Central Europe : religion contested | 428 |
11 | Decision and destruction, 1618-48 | 469 |
12 | Coda : a British legacy, 1600-1700 | 485 |
Pt. III | Patterns of life | |
13 | Changing times | 531 |
14 | Death, life, and discipline | 557 |
15 | Love and sex : staying the same | 587 |
16 | Love and sex : moving on | 608 |
17 | Outcomes | 645 |
App. of texts | Creeds, Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, and Hail Mary | 685 |
Notes | 689 | |
Further reading | 745 | |
Index | 751 |