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Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.46A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel'A masterpiece'... -
Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.23Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformation-and Henry VIII through the minefields of divorce... -
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which... -
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.70'A masterpiece ... In its field it is the best book ever' GuardianWinner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 charts a seismic shift in European culture... -
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch 9780141990958
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34'A richly entertaining history of the ways in which, for 3,000 years, the church has tied itself in knots over sex (and love and marriage) ... fabulous' ObserverThe Bible observes that God made... -
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.47Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary... -
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €10.70The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history, and has remained one of the most... -
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch 9781984878670
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €37.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984878670Author Diarmaid MacCullochFormat HardbackPage Count 688Impri -
The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety by Diarmaid MacCulloch 9780333578575
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All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy by Diarmaid MacCulloch 9780190692254
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €21.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 9780141985077
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Edward VI died a teenager in 1553, yet his brief reign would shape the future of the nation, unleashing a Protestant revolution that propelled England into the heart of the Reformation. This... -
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident Peter Stanford 9781473621671
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.09'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very fine book, written... -
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath... -
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion by Peter Heather 9780141988535
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review'A page-turner' The SpectatorIn... -
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism Larry Siedentop 9780141009544
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46From Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society... -
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful... -
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance Dr Ross King 9781784709372
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling... -
Edward II (Penguin Monarchs): The Terrors of Kingship by Christopher Given-Wilson
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness'The reign... -
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English by Jonathan Ree
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Astonishing ... enjoy its riches slowly, and savour every generous, erudite and undogmatic page' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times'We English men have wits,' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and,... -
Edward IV (Penguin Monarchs): The Summer King by A. J. Pollard
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.00'Edward was a man of considerable charm, who perhaps relied too much upon that charm to keep tensions within his entourage at bay' In 1461 Edward earl of March, a handsome, charismatic... -
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America's greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt.'Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically... -
The Rule of Benedict by Saint Benedict of Nursia
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94St Benedict's inspirational work has been guiding Benedictine monks for fifteen centuries, and the Penguin Classics edition of The Rule of Benedict is translated with an introduction and notes by... -
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by Dr John Barton
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79WINNER OF THE 2019 DUFF COOPER PRIZEA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'With emotional and psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our culture. In the process, he has produced a... -
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.47'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it... -
Antwerp: The Glory Years by Michael Pye
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp... -
The Word: On the Translation of the Bible by Dr John Barton 9780141993041
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of the Bible, this is the story of how the Bible has been translated, and why it mattersThe Bible is held to be both universal and specific, the... -
Henry I (Penguin Monarchs): The Father of His People by Edmund King 9780141978987
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I (1100-35) was never meant to be king, but he was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own... -
George II (Penguin Monarchs): Not Just a British Monarch by Norman Davies
Booksplease Price: €22.48From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George IIGeorge II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he... -
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.94One of the most influential and well-loved books of Christianity, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis appears here in Penguin Classics in a new translation by Robert Jeffery, with an... -
The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and and the English... -
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God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill 9780140137118 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €4.94A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts: fenland farmer and humble backbencher; stalwart of the good old cause and the New Model Army; key figure of... -
Henry III (Penguin Monarchs): A Simple and God-Fearing King by Stephen Church
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16'Most contemporaries would have argued that it was a king's job to put in peril his soul for the good of his Church and of his people. But Henry was too determined to live a life of a saint'Henry ... -
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the... -
Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.53'History as it should be written' Alison Weir, bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens seriesA groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who... -
Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.46Winner of the Orwell Prize The second part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy, Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the... -
William IV (Penguin Monarchs): A King at Sea by Roger Knight
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.89'He had brought nothing but trouble to the navy: how would he fare as King?'Known as the 'Sailor King', William IV was sent to join the navy by his father to discipline him, but instead became... -
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Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy 9780141004099 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €2.80Winner of the Orwell Prize The second part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy, Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary decade, emerging from the... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.79Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the... -
Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs): Treason and Trust Sean Cunningham 9780141977768
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.67Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format Henry VII was one of England's unlikeliest monarchs. An exile and outsider with barely a...