The Reformation

A History

De: Diarmaid MacCulloch

Narrado por: Anne Flosnik

At a time when men and women were prepared to kill - and be killed - for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning history brilliantly recreates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars, and politicians - from the zealous Martin Luther and his 95 Theses to the polemical John Calvin to the radical Igantius Loyola, from the tortured Thomas 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.

©2003 Diarmaid MacCulloch (P)2017 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Superb...An essential work of religious history." ( Kirkus)

An essential piece of history to understand the modern world

Best book I’ve read in years. Political, scientific, and military history of Europe require this *detailed* understanding of religion. Also illuminates today, our schisms, our end-of-the-world obsessions, our 'morals', our weaponizing of thought.
Also illuminates many of the great things of today - our tolerance, our pursuit of scientific truth, our desire to make a better world and be better people, our ability to sacrifice and persevere for beliefs, our ability to change, to adapt, and to strike out on our own if needed.
Highly recommended.

Narrator unqualified

Narrator can't pronounce Isaiah and other simple words from religion/history/geography. Super distracting. Returned audiobook of The Reformation and ordered the physical book. MacCulloch the author is amazing!

Very academic

Was a too academic for just a casual reader. There certainly many areas of European history that I knew nothing about. What was striking was how mobile people were - ethnic cleansing is not new.

Unlistenable narration

You would be forgiven for mistaking the narrator’s voice for an automatically-generated one. I would actually prefer to listen to an AI’s voice if that option were available.

Good narrator, good content

This is an amazing book, really makes you deeply appreciate the philosophical questions the reformers were grappling with, the stakes, and the context. It would probably be better to read it but if you must listen this is a great listen. The narrator is skilled and effective.