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Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His books include Thomas Cranmer: A Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize; The Reformation: A History, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Wolfson Prize; and Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, a New York Times bestseller that won the Cundill Prize in History. An Anglican deacon, knighted in 2012, he has presented many highly celebrated documentaries for television and radio. He lives in Oxford, England.
Thomas Cromwell has famously defied his biographers, but no more. Diarmaid MacCulloch's book is subtle, witty and precisely constructed. He has sifted the vast archive to clear away the accumulated error, muddle and propaganda of centuries, allowing us to see this clever and fascinating man better than ever before, and in the mirror of his times. This a book that--and it's not often you can say this--we have been awaiting for four hundred years. --Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies Praise for Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years Immensely ambitious and absorbing. --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker A landmark contribution . . . It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive and surprisingly accessible volume than MacCulloch's. --Jon Meacham, The New York Times Book Review A prodigious, thrilling, masterclass of a history book. MacCulloch is to be congratulated for his accessible handling of so much complex, difficult material. --John Cornwell, Financial Times Praise for Silence: A Christian History In MacCulloch's hands, reading about Christianity often feels as soulful, as silently consuming, as prayer itself. --Tom Bissell, Harper's Magazine Silence is excellent: beautifully written, factually dense, intellectually sophisticated. --Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine Enjoyable and intelligent . . . MacCulloch is a gifted scholar and his ideas are always worth hearing. --The Economist Cromwell is central to his era, a political genius, and someone who, though much studied, has eluded every biographer who has approached him. He has also been the victim (if he could ever be described as a victim) of crude stereotyping and a complacent transmission of received untruths. Diarmaid MacCulloch is the writer whose net is fine enough to catch this clever and difficult man. He has gone back to the vast archive and rethought everything. His understanding of Thomas Cromwell's context--social, religious, political--is both wide and deep. So he is superbly poised to deliver a book that--and it's not often you can say this--we have been awaiting for five hundred years. --Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies Praise for Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years Immensely ambitious and absorbing. --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker A landmark contribution . . . It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive and surprisingly accessible volume than MacCulloch's. --Jon Meacham, The New York Times Book Review A prodigious, thrilling, masterclass of a history book. MacCulloch is to be congratulated for his accessible handling of so much complex, difficult material. --John Cornwell, Financial Times Praise for Silence: A Christian History In MacCulloch's hands, reading about Christianity often feels as soulful, as silently consuming, as prayer itself. --Tom Bissell, Harper's Magazine Silence is excellent: beautifully written, factually dense, intellectually sophisticated. --Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine Enjoyable and intelligent . . . MacCulloch is a gifted scholar and his ideas are always worth hearing. --The Economist
