Thomas Cranmer: A Life

Diarmaid MacCulloch (born 1951) is an English historian specializing in the history of Christianity and the Reformation. His notable works include Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Reformation: Europe's House Divided (2003), recipient of the Wolfson History Prize, British Academy Book Prize, and National Book Critics Circle Award; and A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009), which earned the Cundill Prize in History and Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He was Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford (1997–2019, now emeritus), knighted in 2012, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.