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Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490 - 1700
Reformation Europe's House Divided 1490 1700 Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch At a time when men and women were prepared to kill?and be killed?for their faith, the Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch?s award-winning new history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars, and politicians?from the ze... more »alous Martin Luther to the radical Loyola, from the tortured 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.« less