{"product_id":"the-reformation-a-history-9780143035381","title":"The Reformation: A History","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe National Book Critics Circle Award-winning history of the Reformation--from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eChristianity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars, and politicians--from the zealous Martin Luther and his \u003ci\u003eNinety-Five Theses\u003c\/i\u003e to the polemical John Calvin to the radical Igantius Loyola, from the tortured Thomas Cranmer to the ambitious Philip II.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiarmaid MacCulloch\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThomas Cranmer\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Whitbread Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize; \u003ci\u003eChristianity\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller that won the Cundill Prize in History and was chosen by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as a Best Book of the Year; and \u003ci\u003eSilence: A Christian History. The Reformation\u003c\/i\u003e won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Wolfson Prize, and the British Academy Prize A Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society, he was knighted by the Queen for his services to scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627547627794,"sku":"9780143035381","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_83557f64-3394-4d16-b9ac-f34b3b8876b5.jpg?v=1732675710","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-reformation-a-history-9780143035381","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}