Diarmaid Macculloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1052497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diarmaid Macculloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diarmaid |
| FAMILY NAME | Macculloch |
| SIGNATURE | MACCULLOCH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Holy Cross College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 58 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Generations
The Protestant Reformation produced Western Christianity's greatest ideological rift in the 1,200 years between the Arian controversy and the French Revolution, leaving a permanent mark on Western Christendom and its cultural offshoots that even Arianism had failed to imprint. What survives today of European religion and its flourishing outgrowths worldwide is sharply divided between Catholic and Protestant. In the sixteenth century, England was …
Das Christentum
The British theologian and church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch is an internationally respected expert on the Reformation period. In his keynote address, he emphasizes that in his research he was always surprised by how changeable Christianity proved to be through the millennia. His approach is so significant because he understands the history of the Reformation between 1490 and 1700 not as a national, but as a polycentric, cross-denominational p…
Christentum
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 …
Roods, Screens and Weddings
These two useful and beautifully-produced sets of conference and associated papers span 1200 years of theology and church archaeology in these islands and beyond. The volumes are complementary, comprising a thematic Venn diagram on the rood, its screen and the Reformation afterlife of screens. The area of Venn intersection around screens points to a missing fourth theme of great importance, which I will add to the rich store of data presented by …
The Double-crested Cormorant
The double-crested cormorant, found only in North America, is an iridescent black waterbird superbly adapted to catch fish. It belongs to a family of birds vilified since biblical times and persecuted around the world. Thus it was perhaps to be expected that the first European settlers in North America quickly deemed the double-crested cormorant a competitor for fishing stock and undertook a relentless drive to destroy the birds. This enormously …
All Things Made New
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Translating Dramatic Texts in Sixteenth-Century England and France), on Érudit.
Gregory Cromwell
This paper presents a probable identification of not one but two portrait miniatures of Gregory Cromwell, only son of England's only vice-gerent in spirituals, by Hans Holbein the Younger. The historical evidence has hitherto remained unconnected because of misunderstandings about Gregory's age, which are clarified here, and also thanks to the unexpected modern locations of the two relevant miniatures
Parliament and the R eformation of E dward VI
This article explores the ways in which parliament was used to shape the accelerating protestant reformation undertaken by successive governments under E dward VI . It underlines the significance for constitutional history of T homas C romwell's extraordinary promotion of E ngland's parliament to enact the break with Rome and evangelical religious change, and the corresponding use of parliament after C romwell's fall by conservatives to combat ev…
The Serpent and the Lamb
Book Review| January 01 2014 The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation Ozment, Steven, The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 344 pp. Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid MacCulloch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 135. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374907 Cite Icon Cite Shar…
Changing Historical Perspectives on the English Reformation
In 1971 and early 1972, as a final-year Cambridge undergraduate, I turned to the study of the English Reformation, under the able supervision of Felicity Heal, while attending the lectures of a wonderfully rackety and quirkily learned Fellow of Selwyn College, the late and much lamented patron of the Cambridge Footlights, Harry Porter. The course was entitled ‘Thought and Religion in England 1500 to 1650’, and it was fairly cutting-edge by the st…
The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey . Volume V
This volume, edited by Victor Morgan, Elizabeth Rutledge and Barry Taylor, represents another stage in a great publishing project, and the first passed on by the founding editor, A. Hassell Smith, to a new generation. Yet one still senses here Smith’s long engagement with that emotionally private, tidy-minded Puritan gentleman-administrator Nathaniel Bacon and his well-matched servant Martin Man, as they laid down the archive now scattered across…
Foxes, Firebrands, and Forgery
This is an analysis of the extensive forgeries of Reformation history by Robert Ware of Dublin in the late seventeenth century, one of which, Archbishop Cranmer's speech at Edward VI's coronation, is still widely quoted and used as historical evidence. Ware's activity is explained in the context of Popish Plot agitation in Ireland and England, and John Strype's part in preserving some of the forgeries in the historical record is delineated. The s…
Philip Benedict, Christ's Churches purely Reformed
Fires of Faith
Life Writing in Reformation Europe
Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England
Journal Article Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England Get access Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England, ed. Ariel Hessayon and Nicholas Keene (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006; pp. 255. £50). Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid MacCulloch St Cross College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 500, February 2008, Pages 190–193, https://doi.org/1…
Thomas Cranmer and Johannes Dantiscus
The friendship of Thomas Cranmer with the Polish humanist and diplomat Bishop Johannes Dantiscus is one of the most interesting among Cranmer's European-wide circle of acquaintance. Although it was extremely episodic and petered out in religious disagreement, it was a vivid and early illustration of the international cast of mind of this central figure of the English Reformation. So one of the archival discoveries which pleased me most in writing…
Princess Mary's Household and the Succession Crisis, July 1553
This article reconsiders Mary Tudor's victory in the succession crisis of July 1553. It challenges the traditional interpretation which accounts for Mary's unexpected triumph as the result of a ‘spontaneous’ rising of the East Anglian gentry. Instead it reclaims a central role for Mary's household affinity in the succession crisis and as such presents a longer-term perspective than accounts of Mary's coup d’état have provided hitherto. It conclud…
Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England
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…
Protestantism in Mainland Europe
Most stimulating — for this Anglophone historian, at least — has been the reintegration of religious history into mainstream social and political history generally, and also the heightened sense of an international movement embracing an entire continent and beyond. We no longer make artificial distinctions between the Reformations of the Atlantic Isles and those on the mainland; we can see more clearly what is local and what is part of an interna…
A Sociological History of Christian Worship
Journal Article A Sociological History of Christian Worship Get access A Sociological History of Christian Worship. By MARTIN D. STRINGER (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2005; pp. 268. £40; pb. £16.99). Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid MacCulloch St Cross College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 492, June 2006, Pages 838–840, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cel1…
Putting the English Reformation on the Map the Prothero Lecture
The essay examines how the international Protestant identity of the English Church came to be in tension with the later assertion of sacramentalist or Catholic values within it. It chronicles how the Reformation in England came to align not with Lutheranism but with Reformed Protestantism, and compares Henry VIII's reforms with contemporary Reformations in mainland Europe seeking a ‘middle way’. Edward VI's Church is contrasted with the temperatu…
Mary and Sixteenth-Century Protestants
Let us contemplate Thomas Cranmer, Primate of All England, sitting on an altar to preside over the trial of Anabaptist heretics. The time is May 1549; the altar, unceremoniously covered over to support the judge, is that of the Lady Chapel in St Paul’s Cathedral in London; several of the heretics on trial have denied the Catholic doctrine of the incarnation, and one will later be burned at the stake. In a compelling paradox, an archbishop trample…
Richard Hooker's Reputation
Richard Hooker emerged from the Reformed Protestant milieu of Elizabethan Oxford to establish his own idiosyncratic theological ground in a comparatively brief career, principally through his monumental Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Before his death in 1600, debate over his purposes and theological stance was sparked by the controversial tract A Christian Letter; very quickly his memory was claimed by rival parties in the English Church a…
The Later Reformation in England, 1547–1603
The English Reformation was the event which chiefly shaped English identity well into the twentieth century. It made the English kingdom a self-consciously Protestant state dominating the British Isles, and boasting an established Church which eventually developed a peculiar religious agenda, Anglicanism. Although Henry VIII triggered a break with the Pope in his eccentric quest to rid himself of an inconveniently loyal wife, the Reformation soon…
The Myth of the English Reformation
The myth of the English Reformation is that it did not happen, or that it happened by accident rather than design, or that it was halfhearted and sought a middle way between Catholicism and Protestantism; the point at issue is the identity of the Church of England. The myth was created in two stages, first in the middle years of the seventeenth century, and then from the third decade of the nineteenth century; and in either case it was created by…
A Bailiff's List and Chronicle from Worcester
This is an edition of an important and largely unpublished sixteenth-century chronicle from Worcester. The chronicle forms five folios in a manuscript volume of miscellaneous collections and memoranda completed in the early seventeenth century by John Steynor of Worcester. The volume is among the former episcopal estate papers taken over by the Church Commissioners and then lodged at St Helen's Record Office in Worcester. It is structured as a li…
Richard Hooker's Reputation
Richard Hooker emerged from the Reformed Protestant milieu of Elizabethan Oxford to establish his own idiosyncratic theological ground in a comparatively brief career, principally through his monumental Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. Before his death in 1600, debate over his purposes and theological stance was sparked by the controversial tract A Christian Letter; very quickly his memory was claimed by rival parties in the English Church a…
Princess Mary's Household and the Succession Crisis, July 1553
This article reconsiders Mary Tudor's victory in the succession crisis of July 1553. It challenges the traditional interpretation which accounts for Mary's unexpected triumph as the result of a ‘spontaneous’ rising of the East Anglian gentry. Instead it reclaims a central role for Mary's household affinity in the succession crisis and as such presents a longer-term perspective than accounts of Mary's coup d’état have provided hitherto. It conclud…
Putting the English Reformation on the Map the Prothero Lecture
The essay examines how the international Protestant identity of the English Church came to be in tension with the later assertion of sacramentalist or Catholic values within it. It chronicles how the Reformation in England came to align not with Lutheranism but with Reformed Protestantism, and compares Henry VIII's reforms with contemporary Reformations in mainland Europe seeking a ‘middle way’. Edward VI's Church is contrasted with the temperatu…
Foxes, Firebrands, and Forgery
This is an analysis of the extensive forgeries of Reformation history by Robert Ware of Dublin in the late seventeenth century, one of which, Archbishop Cranmer's speech at Edward VI's coronation, is still widely quoted and used as historical evidence. Ware's activity is explained in the context of Popish Plot agitation in Ireland and England, and John Strype's part in preserving some of the forgeries in the historical record is delineated. The s…
Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England
Journal Article Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England Get access Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England, ed. Ariel Hessayon and Nicholas Keene (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006; pp. 255. £50). Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid MacCulloch St Cross College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 500, February 2008, Pages 190–193, https://doi.org/1…
The impact of the English Reformation
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Kett's Rebellion in Context
KETT'S REBELLION IN CONTEXT Get access Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid MacCulloch Wesley CollegeBristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 84, Issue 1, August 1979, Pages 36–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/84.1.36 Published: 01 August 1979
Protestantism in Mainland Europe
Most stimulating — for this Anglophone historian, at least — has been the reintegration of religious history into mainstream social and political history generally, and also the heightened sense of an international movement embracing an entire continent and beyond. We no longer make artificial distinctions between the Reformations of the Atlantic Isles and those on the mainland; we can see more clearly what is local and what is part of an interna…
New Spotlights on the English Reformation
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Two dons in politics
This article contrasts the early careers of Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner, two Cambridge dons of approximately the same generation who diversified into politics in the late 1520s. It attempts to assess their developing attitudes to the religious changes of the period, and considers the nature of humanism in Cambridge University; it suggests, with the aid of new evidence, that in the 1520s, Cranmer was more conventional in his religion than …
Kett's Rebellion in Context
KETT'S REBELLION IN CONTEXT Get access Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid MacCulloch Wesley CollegeBristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 84, Issue 1, August 1979, Pages 36–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/84.1.36 Published: 01 August 1979
A Rejoinder
Journal Article A REJOINDER Get access Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid MacCulloch Wesley CollegeBristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 93, Issue 1, November 1981, Pages 165–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/93.1.165 Published: 01 November 1981
III The Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield of Brantham
Introduction 182 The manuscript 182 The author 183 The content of the manuscript 188 Politics and the Vita Mariae 192 Editorial procedure and acknowledgements 195 Text 196 Translation 244 Notes to the text 294
Double-Crested Cormorant
Mary Stewart's People
England's Iconoclasts. 1. Laws against Images
Bench and Bureaucracy. The Public Career of Sir Julius Caesar, 1580-1636
Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk c. 1484-1545
The Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports 1550-1590
This book offers an account of the inland and foreign trade of East Anglian ports, from King's Lynn to Ipswich, during the reign of Elizabeth I. Drawing on state papers, customs documents and other original sources, it gives a general picture of the economic life of the region. The survey is not confined to general statements, statistical tables or movements of commodities, but includes sketches of individual merchants, pirates and smugglers. The…
Parish, Church and People. Local Studies in Lay Religion 1350-1750
London and the Reformation
Speculum Britanniae
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access DIARMAID MACCULLOCH DIARMAID MACCULLOCH Wesley CollegeBristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXVII, October 1990, Pages 1023–1024, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXVII.1023 Published: 01 October 1990
Pastoral Provision in the Parishes of Tudor Ipswich
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access DIARMAID MACCULLOCH DIARMAID MACCULLOCH Wesley CollegeBristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXIX, April 1991, Pages 462-a–462, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXIX.462-a Published: 01 April 1991
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access DIARMAID MACCULLOCH DIARMAID MACCULLOCH Wesley CollegeBristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXX, July 1991, Pages 701-b–702, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXX.701-b Published: 01 July 1991
The Myth of the English Reformation
The myth of the English Reformation is that it did not happen, or that it happened by accident rather than design, or that it was halfhearted and sought a middle way between Catholicism and Protestantism; the point at issue is the identity of the Church of England. The myth was created in two stages, first in the middle years of the seventeenth century, and then from the third decade of the nineteenth century; and in either case it was created by…
The Early Reformation in Europe
In the generation that followed Martin Luther's protest the evangelical movement in Europe attracted very different levels of support in different parts of the continent. Whereas in eastern and central Europe the new movement brought a swift transformation of the religious and political landscape, progress elsewhere was more halting: in the Mediterranean lands and western Europe initial enthusiasm for reform failed to bring about the wholesale re…
The King's Mother
List of illustrations Preface List of abbreviations Genealogical tables Introduction 1. The family background 2. The Wars of the Roses 3. The reign of Henry VII 4. The Countess and her property 5. Household life 6. A portrait of the Countess 7. The Countess and the universities 8. The legacy Appendices Select bibliography Index
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Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access DIARMAID MACCULLOCH DIARMAID MACCULLOCH Wesley CollegeBristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue CCCCXXIX, October 1993, Pages 1020–1021, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.CCCCXXIX.1020 Published: 01 October 1993
Factional Politics and the English Reformation 1520-1540
Part 1 Introduction - faction and reform. Part 2 The Boleyn faction. Part 3 Conservatives and reformers. Part 4 Cromwellian ascendancy - patronage and reform. Part 5 The voice of reform. Part 6 Church and commonwealth - the cure of souls. Part 7 The Protestant faction. Part 8 Conclusion - Cromwell's fall and the triumph of faction
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New Spotlights on the English Reformation
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Two dons in politics
This article contrasts the early careers of Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner, two Cambridge dons of approximately the same generation who diversified into politics in the late 1520s. It attempts to assess their developing attitudes to the religious changes of the period, and considers the nature of humanism in Cambridge University; it suggests, with the aid of new evidence, that in the 1520s, Cranmer was more conventional in his religion than …
Henry VIII and the Reform of the Church
Two provinces of the western church Catholic happened to coincide with the frontiers of the medieval kingdom of England: Canterbury and York. There were clear contrasts between them. York was much smaller than Canterbury, with only three dioceses to Canterbury’s fourteen; it was remoter from the centre of national affairs, and it was a poorer region overall. Either province had its own clerical parliament, Convocation, but the Convocation of Cant…
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