num_pages: 896
description: At a time when men and women were prepared to kill--and be killed--for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning history brilliantly recreates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars, and politicians--from the zealous Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses to the polemical John Calvin to the radical Igantius Loyola, from the tortured Thomas Cranmer to the ambitious Philip II. Drawing together the many strands of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and ranging widely across Europe and the New World, MacCulloch reveals as never before how these dramatic upheavals affected everyday lives--overturning ideas of love, sex, death, and the supernatural, and shaping the modern age.
language: English
title: The Reformation: A History
titlecomplete: The Reformation: A History
genres: Religion, Theology, Historical, Christian, European History, World History, Church History, Nonfiction, History, Christianity
ratings_count: 3153
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Wolfson History Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Hessell-Tiltman Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: British Academy Book Prize
publisher: Penguin Books