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A History of Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Category: Religion
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it h ...Show more
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Category: Non-Fiction
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it h ...Show more
A History of Treason by Diarmaid Macculloch; The National Archives
Category: History
The only complete study of treason in Britain from the introduction of the Treason Act in 1352, to the last execution for treason in this country after the Second World War.
All Things Made New : Writings on the Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Category: Religion
The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history, and has remained one of the most contested. In this dazzling book, Diarmaid MacCulloch explores a turbulent and endlessly fascinating era. 'A ...Show more
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Category: Religion
A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their hist ...Show more
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Category: Religion
This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which were a feature of Jesus' brief ministry. Besides prayer and contemplation, there are shame and evasion; c ...Show more
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Category: History
Diarmaid MacCulloch, acknowledged master of the big picture in Christian history, unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. He considers the surprisingly mixed attitudes of Judaism to silence, Jewish and Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Category: Biography
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, such that in the 1530s he was effectively running the ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell: A Life (PB) by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Category: Biography
That decade was one of the most momentous in English history- it saw a religious break with the Pope, unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution of all monasteries, and the coming of the Protestantism which decisively shaped the future of this country. Cromwell was central to all this, but establi ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell A Revolutionary Life by MACCULLOCH DIARMAID (UNIVERSI
Category: Biography
The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn This a book that - and it's not often you can say this - we have been awaiting for four hundred years. --Hilary Man ...Show more
Tudor Church Militant : Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Category: History
Edward VI died a teenager in 1553, yet his brief reign would shape the future of the nation, unleashing a Protestant revolution that propelled England into the heart of the Reformation. This dramatic account takes a fresh look at one of the most significant and turbulent periods in English history. Alt ...Show more
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