Thomas Cranmer: A Life (Paperback)
Publisher: Triliteral LLC
Author: MacCulloch, Diarmaid
Textbook Note CH 311: Recommended
ISBN-10: 0300074484 | ISBN-13: 9780300074482
Binding: Paperback
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Publisher's Description: This prizewinning biography provides the definitive account of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, King Henry VIII's guide through three divorces, and ultimately a martyr for his Protestant faith. English Reformation scholar Diarmaid MacCulloch draws on new manuscript sources in Britain and elsewhere to create this vivid new study -- the first on Cranmer in over thirty years.
704 Pages
Published February 1998
About the Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch is the author of The Reformation, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Wolfson Prize, and the British Academy Prize, and of Thomas Cranmer, winner of the Whitbread Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize. Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University, he was brought up in a country rectory in East Anglia.
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Staff Review: One of the best works of biography written, MacCulloch conveys the tenuous status of early English Protestantism through the life of Thomas Cranmer. Far from a revolutionary, Cranmer carefully and methodically moved to Protestant convictions.
Vivid details and painstaking scholarship abound in MacCulloch's work. Before the abolition of clerical celibacy requirements, Cranmer's new bride is smuggled into England in over-sized luggage. In his copies of Luther's works, two sets of notes, in different inks, reflect Cranmer's budding Protestant sympathies. Overall, an unparalleled work on the man who, while a modest scholar, was an incredibly influential churchman that set the spiritual language of English Christianity for centuries to come.- Matthew Harmon, Westminster Bookstore Staff, August 2006
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