Diarmaid MacCulloch

Diarmaid MacCulloch is a fellow of St Cross College and professor of the History of the Church at Oxford.

In the LRB Archive:

• Who kicked them out?: St Patrick’s Purgatory · 1 August 2019

  • St Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland’s Patron Saint by Roy Flechner

• Nobody’s perfect: ‘The Holy Land’ · 27 September 2018

  • In the Footsteps of King David: Revelations from an Ancient Biblical City by Yosef Garfinkel, Saar Ganor and Michael G. Hasel

• A Bonanza for Lawyers: The Huguenot Dispersal · 21 September 2017

  • Facing the Revocation: Huguenot Families, Faith, and the King’s Will by Carolyn Chappell Lougee

• The World Took Sides: Martin Luther · 11 August 2016

  • Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Centre of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe – and Started the Protestant Reformation by Andrew Pettegree
  • Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper
  • Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer by Scott H. Hendrix

• Tidy-Mindedness: The Crusades · 24 September 2015

  • How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman

• How to Be a Knight: William Marshal · 21 May 2015

  • The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power behind Five English Thrones by Thomas Asbridge

• Young Man’s Nostalgia: William Byrd · 31 July 2014

  • Byrd by Kerry McCarthy

• Faking the Canon: Forging the Bible · 6 February 2014

  • Forgery and Counter-Forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics by Bart Ehrman

• The snake slunk off: Jesus the Zealot · 10 October 2013

  • Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

• One Enormous Room: Council of Trent · 9 May 2013

  • Trent: What Happened at the Council by John O’Malley

• Mumpsimus, Sumpsimus: Common Prayer · 24 May 2012

  • Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559 and 1662 edited by Brian Cummings

• The Chief Inhabitant: Jerusalem · 14 July 2011

  • Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore

• Rome’s New Mission: Early Christianity · 2 June 2011

  • Christians and Pagans: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede by Malcolm Lambert

• How good is it?: Inside the KJB · 3 February 2011

  • The Holy Bible: King James Version, 1611 Text edited by Gordon Campbell
  • Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011 by Gordon Campbell
  • The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today by David Norton
  • The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Influences edited by Hannibal Hamlin and Norman Jones
  • Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language by David Crystal

• Overstatements: Anti-Semitism · 10 June 2010

  • Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius

• Evil Just Is: The Italian Inquisition · 13 May 2010

  • The Italian Inquisition by Christopher Black

• Paraphernalia: Tudor Spin · 19 November 2009

  • Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in 16th-Century England by Kevin Sharpe

• Purgatory be damned: The Dissolution of the Monasteries · 17 July 2008

  • The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery by Geoffrey Moorhouse

• Something about Mary: The First Queen of England · 18 October 2007

  • Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England by David Loades

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