Book SummaryĬhristianity, one of the world’s great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. He received a knighthood in January 2012 for services to scholarship. Professor MacCulloch was the presenter on BBC4 and BBC2 of "A History of Christianity - the first 3,000 years", which won the Radio Times Listeners' Award in 2010, "How God made the English" (BBC2, 2012) and "Henry VIII's fixer: the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell" (BBC2, 2013) his BBC2 series Sex and the West is aired in spring 2015. More recent publications from Penguin/Allen Lane have included Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700(appearing in the USA as The Reformation: a History), and A History of Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years (in the USA, Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years), which won the 2010 Cundill History Prize his latest book is Silence: a Christian History. He is working on a biography of Thomas Cromwell. He has written extensively on Tudor England his biography Thomas Cranmer: a Life (Yale UP, 1996) won the Whitbread Biography, Duff Cooper and James Tait Black Prizes. Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church, in the Theology Faculty he is a Fellow of the British Academy, and co-edited the Journal of Ecclesiastical History for two decades.
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