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The great Western upheaval
John W. O'MalleyThe Reformation
A History
By Diarmaid MacCulloch
Viking. 800p $34.95
ISBN 0670032964
"In its field it is the best book ever written." That was the most enthusiastic of the many enthusiastic assessments that greeted MacCulloch's book when it appeared in Britain last year. It is an assessment with which I agree. The book is a monumental achievement that takes readers through the familiar parts of the story of the Reformation but then leads them far beyond those parts--both backward into the late Middle Ages and forward into the 18th century--and, briefly, even beyond.
The book ends, ...
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