Ben Waber reviewed A Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
An Epic, Insightful Tome
5 stars
This is the absolute one stop shop for all things Reformation, providing both a blow by blow recounting of the period and insightful analysis of the developments that occurred during this time. As the critical bridge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and certainly a major precondition of the latter, understanding how this package of movements grew out of ideal ideological conditions and profoundly shaped the following world is extremely important, and here you'll get a ton of insight on how the excesses of the Church and doomsday theories of the day snowballed by intersecting with other political forces throughout Europe. This book is extremely long (great for very long flights as long as you're not lugging around the physical version), but if you're going to write a single book on a massive topic this is how you do it. Highly recommend
This is the absolute one stop shop for all things Reformation, providing both a blow by blow recounting of the period and insightful analysis of the developments that occurred during this time. As the critical bridge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and certainly a major precondition of the latter, understanding how this package of movements grew out of ideal ideological conditions and profoundly shaped the following world is extremely important, and here you'll get a ton of insight on how the excesses of the Church and doomsday theories of the day snowballed by intersecting with other political forces throughout Europe. This book is extremely long (great for very long flights as long as you're not lugging around the physical version), but if you're going to write a single book on a massive topic this is how you do it. Highly recommend