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'The Bay Psalm Book' was the first book to be printed in North
America, twenty years after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in
Massachusetts. Now extremely rare - only eleven copies survive - it
is also the most expensive book in the world, fetching over $14.2
million at auction. Worship in the 'mother tongue' and
congregational hymns had become key tenets of Puritanism following
the Reformation. New England Puritans were unhappy with
contemporary translations of the Psalms and decided that they
needed their own version, which would better represent their
beliefs. A team of writers in the Massachusetts Bay settlement,
including John Cotton and Richard Mather, set about translating the
psalms into English from the original Hebrew, and setting the
lyrics to a metre so that they could easily be sung in
congregation. The resulting translation, 'The Whole Booke of
Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre,' was published in
1640 on a printing press brought over from Surrey. It became known
as the Bay Psalm Book after the name of the colony that was home to
its translators. Every page of this extraordinarily influential
book, including the translators' preface, is faithfully reproduced
here, complete with original printer's errors and binding marks. An
introduction by Diarmaid MacCulloch sets the book in context and
explains how this unassuming Psalter came to have a profound effect
on the course of the Protestant faith in America. This edition is
made from the original held at the Bodleian Library, one of the
best preserved of the surviving copies, despite its accidental
submersion in the river Thames in 1731, when the barge carrying it
to Oxford unexpectedly sank.
Tudor Rebellions, now in its seventh edition, gives a chronological
account of the major rebellions against the Tudor monarchy in
England from the reign of King Henry VII until the death of Queen
Elizabeth I in 1603. The book throws light on some of the main
themes of Tudor history, including the dynasty's attempt to bring
the north and west under the control of the capital, the progress
of the English Reformation and the impact of inflation, taxation
and enclosure on society, and makes comparisons with the other
Tudor realm of Ireland. This new edition has been revised once more
to take into account the exciting and innovative work on the
subject in recent years and bring the historiographical debates
right up to date. The primary sources, alongside the narrative
history, allow students to fully explore these turbulent times,
seeking to understand what drove Tudor people to rebel and what
sort of people were inclined to do so. In doing so, the book
considers both 'high' and 'low' politics, and the concerns of both
the noble and the unprivileged in Tudor society. With supplementary
materials including a chronology, who's who and guide to further
reading along with a selection of maps and images, Tudor Rebellions
is an invaluable resource for all students of Tudor history.
Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of
Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to
contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be
the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its
followers? This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date
single volume work in English, describes not only the main facts,
ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organization and
spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human
society. Taking in wars, empires, reformers, apostles, sects,
churches and crusaders, Diarmaid MacCulloch shows how Christianity
has brought humanity to the most terrible acts of cruelty - and
inspired its most sublime accomplishments. 'A stunning tour de
force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year
'A landmark in its field, astonishing in its range, compulsively
readable, full of insight ... It will have few, if any, rivals in
the English language' Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury,
Guardian 'A prodigious, thrilling, masterclass of a history book'
John Cornwell, Financial Times 'Essential reading for those
enthralled by Christianity and for those enraged by it' Melvyn
Bragg, Observer, Books of the Year 'Magnificent ... a sumptuous
portrait, alive with detail and generous in judgement' Richard
Holloway, The Times Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History
of the Church at Oxford University. His Thomas Cranmer won the
Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff
Cooper Prize. He is the author most recently of Reformation:
Europe's House Divided 1490 - 1700, which won the Wolfson Prize for
History and the British Academy Prize.
The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was
the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the
culmination of a three-year UEA-funded research project into the
college and castle. The building projects of the late medieval
aristocracy focused on their homes and the monasteries, churches or
chantry foundations under their patronage where their family were
buried and commemorated. This commemoration allowed a visual
celebration of their achievements, status and lineage, the scale
and prestige of which reflected on the fortunes of the family as a
whole. Wingfield is explored in the context of both the actual
building of the castle, chantry chapel and the college, and that of
the symbolic function of these as a demonstration ion of
aristocratic status. The contributions to this book examine many
topics which have hitherto been neglected, such as the archaeology
of the castle, which had never been excavated, the complex history
of the college's architecture, and the detailed study of the
monuments in the church. The latest techniques are used to
reconstruct the college and castle, with a DVD to demonstrate
these. And the context of the family and its fortunes are explored
in chapters on the place of the de la Poles in fifteenth century
history, as soldiers, administrators and potential claimants to the
throne.
Der Preisträger des Dr. Leopold Lucas-Preises 2019, der britische
Theologe und Kirchenhistoriker Diarmaid MacCulloch, ist ein
international angesehener Kenner der Reformationszeit. Für den
Kirchenhistoriker ist die Geschichte des Christentums zur
Lebensaufgabe geworden. In seinem Festvortrag anlässlich der
Verleihung hebt er hervor, dass ihn in seinen Forschungen immer
wieder überraschte, wie wandelbar sich das Christentum durch die
Jahrtausende zeigte. MacCullochs Ansatz ist deshalb so bedeutend,
weil er die Geschichte der Reformation zwischen 1490 und 1700 nicht
als jeweils nationalen, sondern als polyzentrischen,
konfessionsübergreifenden Prozess im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit
begreift. Dabei brachten unterschiedliche Kräfte eine
Modernisierung voran, die zum einen die europäische Gesellschaft
bis heute prägt und zum anderen mit der Idee der Gedankenfreiheit
die Grundlage der Aufklärung und des modernen Denkens vorwegnahm.
Tudor Rebellions, now in its seventh edition, gives a chronological
account of the major rebellions against the Tudor monarchy in
England from the reign of King Henry VII until the death of Queen
Elizabeth I in 1603. The book throws light on some of the main
themes of Tudor history, including the dynasty's attempt to bring
the north and west under the control of the capital, the progress
of the English Reformation and the impact of inflation, taxation
and enclosure on society, and makes comparisons with the other
Tudor realm of Ireland. This new edition has been revised once more
to take into account the exciting and innovative work on the
subject in recent years and bring the historiographical debates
right up to date. The primary sources, alongside the narrative
history, allow students to fully explore these turbulent times,
seeking to understand what drove Tudor people to rebel and what
sort of people were inclined to do so. In doing so, the book
considers both 'high' and 'low' politics, and the concerns of both
the noble and the unprivileged in Tudor society. With supplementary
materials including a chronology, who's who and guide to further
reading along with a selection of maps and images, Tudor Rebellions
is an invaluable resource for all students of Tudor history.
The "New York Times "bestseller and definitive history of
Christianity for our time--from the award-winning author of "The
Reformation" and "Silence"
A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding
skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's "Christianity" goes back to the
origins of the Hebrew Bible and encompasses the globe. It captures
the major turning points in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox
history and fills in often neglected accounts of conversion and
confrontation in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. MacCulloch
introduces us to monks and crusaders, heretics and reformers, popes
and abolitionists, and discover Christianity's essential role in
shaping human history and the intimate lives of men and women. And
he uncovers the roots of the faith that galvanized America,
charting the surprising beliefs of the founding fathers, the rise
of the Evangelical movement and of Pentecostalism, and the recent
crises within the Catholic Church. Bursting with original insights
and a great pleasure to read, this monumental religious history
will not soon be surpassed.
'Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a
number of untamed lions' mouths.' G.R. Elton, Preface Geoffrey
Elton (1921-1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor
period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an
outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British
and European history. Revised several times since its first
publication in 1955, England Under the Tudors charts a historical
period that witnessed monumental changes in religion, monarchy, and
government - and one that continued to shape British history long
after. Spanning the commencement of Henry VII's reign to the death
of Elizabeth I, Elton's magisterial account is populated by many
colourful and influential characters, from Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas
Cranmer, and Thomas Cromwell to Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots.
Elton also examines aspects of the Tudor period that had been
previously overlooked, such as empire and commonwealth, agriculture
and industry, seapower, and the role of the arts and literature.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Diarmaid
MacCulloch.
Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common
Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through
the early Reformation-and Henry VIII through the minefields of
divorce. This is the first major biography of him for more than
three decades, and the first for a century to exploit rich new
manuscript sources in Britain and elsewhere. Diarmaid MacCulloch,
one of the foremost scholars of the English Reformation, traces
Cranmer from his east-Midland roots through his twenty-year career
as a conventionally conservative Cambridge don. He shows how
Cranmer was recruited to the coterie around Henry VIII that was
trying to annul the royal marriage to Catherine, and how new
connections led him to embrace the evangelical faith of the
European Reformation and, ultimately, to become archbishop of
Canterbury. By then a major English statesman, living the life of a
medieval prince-bishop, Cranmer guided the church through the
king's vacillations and finalized two successive versions of the
English prayer book. MacCulloch skillfully reconstructs the crises
Cranmer negotiated, from his compromising association with three of
Henry's divorces, the plot by religious conservatives to oust him,
and his role in the attempt to establish Lady Jane Grey as queen to
the vengeance of the Catholic Mary Tudor. In jail after Mary's
accession, Cranmer nearly repudiated his achievements, but he found
the courage to turn the day of his death into a dramatic
demonstration of his Protestant faith. From this vivid account
Cranmer emerges a more sharply focused figure than before, more
conservative early in his career than admirers have allowed, more
evangelical than Anglicanism would later find comfortable. A
hesitant hero with a tangled life story, his imperishable legacy is
his contribution in the prayer book to the shape and structure of
English speech and through this to the molding of an international
language and the theology it expressed.
'Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a
number of untamed lions' mouths.' G.R. Elton, Preface Geoffrey
Elton (1921-1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor
period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an
outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British
and European history. Revised several times since its first
publication in 1955, England Under the Tudors charts a historical
period that witnessed monumental changes in religion, monarchy, and
government - and one that continued to shape British history long
after. Spanning the commencement of Henry VII's reign to the death
of Elizabeth I, Elton's magisterial account is populated by many
colourful and influential characters, from Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas
Cranmer, and Thomas Cromwell to Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots.
Elton also examines aspects of the Tudor period that had been
previously overlooked, such as empire and commonwealth, agriculture
and industry, seapower, and the role of the arts and literature.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Diarmaid
MacCulloch.
New scrutinies of the most important political and religious
debates of the post-Reformation period. The consequences of the
Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been
an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume,
by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the
important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation
to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures, the
relationship of theology and secular ideologies, and the Civil War.
Topics include Puritan networks and nomenclature in England and in
the New World; examinations of the changing theology of the Church
in the century after the Reformation; the evolving relationship of
art and protestantism; the providentialist thinking of Charles
I;the operation of the penal laws against Catholics; and
protestantism in the localities of Yorkshire and Norwich. KENNETH
FINCHAM is Reader in History at the University of Kent; Professor
PETER LAKE teaches in the Department of History at Princeton
University. Contributors: THOMAS COGSWELL, RICHARD CUST, PATRICK
COLLINSON, THOMAS FREEMAN, PETER LAKE, SUSAN HARDMAN MOORE,
DIARMAID MACCULLOCH, ANTHONY MILTON, PAUL SEAVER, WILLIAM SHEILS
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's brief ministry. Besides prayer and
contemplation, there are shame and evasion; careless and purposeful
forgetting. Many deliberate silences are revealed: the forgetting
of histories inconvenient to later Church authorities, and
Christianity's problems in dealing honestly with sexuality. Behind
all this is the silence of God. In a deeply personal conclusion,
MacCulloch brings a message of optimism for those still seeking God
beyond the clamour of over-confident certainties.
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 masterly
take on the Reformation ... absorbing and compelling, full of
insights' Linda Hogan, Irish Times 'One of our very best public
historians ... as this collection triumphantly confirms, MacCulloch
writes authoritatively and engagingly on a remarkably diverse range
of topics in the history of Christian culture' Peter Marshall,
Literary Review 'Written with elegance and sometimes donnish wit
... he wears his learning lightly' Robert Tombs, The Times
'Dazzling ... prodigiously learned ... MacCulloch has a gift for
explaining complicated things simply' Jack Scarisbrick, Catholic
Herald
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL
TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This is the
biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel 'A
masterpiece' Dan Jones, Sunday Times 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, and by the end of the 1530s he was
effectively running the country for the King. 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. Cromwell was central to all this, but establishing
his role with precision, at a distance of nearly five centuries and
after the destruction of many of his papers at his own fall, has
been notoriously difficult. Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography is much
the most complete and persuasive life ever written of this elusive
figure, a masterclass in historical detective work, making
connections not previously seen. It overturns many received
interpretations, for example that Cromwell was a cynical, 'secular'
politician without deep-felt religious commitment, or that he and
Anne Boleyn were allies because of their common religious
sympathies - in fact he destroyed her. It introduces the many
different personalities of these foundational years, all conscious
of the 'terrifyingly unpredictable' Henry VIII. MacCulloch allows
readers to feel that they are immersed in all this, that it is
going on around them. For a time, the self-made 'ruffian' (as he
described himself) - ruthless, adept in the exercise of power,
quietly determined in religious revolution - was master of events.
MacCulloch's biography for the first time reveals his true place in
the making of modern England and Ireland, for good and ill.
Synopsis: During the sixteenth century, many Reformers echoed
Erasmus's claim that the Scriptures were clear, could be understood
by even the lowliest servant, and should be translated into the
vernacular and placed in the hands of all people. People did not
require the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church to correctly
interpret the meaning of the Scriptures. However, within a few
short years, the leaders of the Magisterial Reformers, Martin
Luther and Huldrych Zwingli, had created their own Protestant
versions of the magisterium. This work traces how the doctrine of
the clarity of Scripture found expression in the writings of
Balthasar Hubmaier, admirer of Erasmus and Luther, and associate of
Zwingli. As Hubmaier engaged in theological debate with opponents,
onetime friends, and other Anabaptists, he sought to clarify his
understanding of this critical reformation doctrine.
Chronologically tracing the development of Hubmaier's hermeneutic
as he interacted with Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, and Hans Denck
provides a useful means of more accurately understanding his place
in the matrix of the sixteenth-century Reformations. Endorsements:
"Scholars have long understood the 'clarity of Scripture' as a
hermeneutic for Reformation figures in the sixteenth century. Until
now, however, no one has exhaustively studied Scripture's
perspicuity in the writings of Anabaptism's greatest early
theologian. Graeme Chatfield has admirably rectified this oversight
with this book while adroitly placing Hubmaier in the context of
his Reformation contemporaries. Accessible and readable, this book
helps us better grasp Hubmaier's thinking, his influences, and his
contributions to his church and to ours." --Brian C. Brewer, Truett
Seminary, Baylor University "Chatfield's work adds to the list of
recent monographs on this leader and scholar of the Reformation
era. Interest in aspects of Hubmaier's theology have grown, not
least because he does not fit easily with the Swiss Anabaptists.
Chatfield has explored Hubmaier's approach to Scripture and comes
to the persuasive conclusion that his approach is more akin to
Zwingli and Luther than the Swiss Anabaptists. An excellent study
that pays careful attention." --Keith G. Jones, Rector,
International Baptist Theological Seminary "The interpretation of
Scripture was a major issue in the sixteenth-century reformations,
separating Roman Catholic scholars, the magisterial reformers, and
the radicals. A key theologian in this debate was Balthasar
Hubmaier, whose contribution, and those of his friends and
opponents, is skillfully and helpfully set out in a detailed study
that chronologically follows the development and progression of his
thought on this central doctrine for all Christian traditions and
eras. Chatfield's research is a valuable and welcome addition to
scholarship." --Anthony R. Cross, Faculty of Theology and Religion,
Oxford University Author Biography: Graeme Chatfield is Associate
Dean of the Australian College of Theology, Sydney. He taught
Church History at Morling College from 1996-2007, and since 2008
has taught intensive courses in Church History and Historical
Theology with TCMII in Vienna, Austria.
This volume includes lectures from high profile figures from
academia and the Church. Anglian and Catholic voices explores
continuity and change in the Anglican Church and its relations with
Rome, from its earliest days onwards.
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. 'A challenging, elegant and
persuasive biography of an unjustly neglected king' Jerry Brotton,
author of This Orient Isle 'MacCulloch puts the young Edward at the
centre of the action ... as this excellent and lively study shows,
his ghost continues to haunt the history of Anglicanism' Sunday
Times 'This is Reformation history as it should be written, not
least because it resembles its subject matter: learned,
argumentative, and, even when mistaken, never dull' Eamon Duffy,
author of The Stripping of the Altars 'One of the best historians
writing in English today' Sunday Telegraph
Diarmaid MacCulloch illuminates the significance of Edward's
turbulent and neglected reign. He takes a fresh look at the life
and beliefs of the young king and of the ruthless politicians who
jostled for power around him. He analyzes the single-minded
strategy of the Protestant Revolution and assesses the support it
had among the people of England.
'A masterpiece ... In its field it is the best book ever' Guardian
Winner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Reformation: Europe's
House Divided 1490-1700 charts a seismic shift in European culture
that marked the beginning of the modern world. 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
history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests,
monarchs, scholars and politicians, from the zealous Martin Luther
nailing his Theses to the door of a Wittenburg church to the
radical Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order; from
Thomas Cranmer, martyred for his reforms, to the ambitious Philip
II, unwavering in his campaign against Europe's 'heretics'. Weaving
together the many strands of Reformation and Counter-Reformation,
ranging widely across Europe and even to the new world, MacCulloch
also reveals as never before how these upheavals affected everyday
lives - overturning ideas of love, sex, death and the supernatural,
and shaping the modern age. 'Magisterial and eloquent' David
Starkey 'A triumph of human sympathy' Blair Worden, Sunday
Telegraph 'From politics to witchcraft, from the liturgy to sex;
the sweep of European history covered here is breathtakingly
panoramic. This is a model work of history' Noel Malcolm, Sunday
Telegraph Books of the Year 'Monumental ... Reformation is set to
become a landmark' Lisa Jardine, Observer Diarmaid MacCulloch is
Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His
Thomas Cranmer won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait
Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. He is also the author of A
History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.
First published in 1987, the "Groundwork of Christian History" has
been a primer for theological college students, undergraduates, lay
readers and all interested in the history and development of
Christian history. Now published in a new and attractive edition
with an updated bibliography, the author still manages to argue his
case convincingly that history need not be boring. He takes his
readers from the earliest days of the fledgling Christian Church to
the end of the twentieth century and enables readers to put
characters, movements and places in their wider context and make
connections between them. Diarmaid McCulloch is Professor of the
History of the Church at the University of Oxford.
For nearly thirty-eight years, Henry VIII ruled the Kingdom of
England, and the three children of his six marriages would between
them reign for aa further half-century and more. His reign has
never ceased to provoke argument, not least because of one of the
great titles which he seized for himself: Supreme Head of the
Church in England. This claim was to have consequences which are
still unravelling today; at the time it led to many deaths and much
bitterness. Was Henry as selfish, cruel monster, or a farsighted
architect of his country's future greatness? How were his changes
in church and state understood and received by his subjects? Tese
are some of the issues discussed by the essayists in the
collection.
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