A review by msmouse
Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch

4.0

This book was a bit of an odyssey. It's written in a fairly conversational and totally readable style, but it's chock full of details that are hard to keep track of. Because he chose to structure this account chronologically rather than thematically he will reference an idea or a person and then hundreds of pages later return to that thought with the assumption that his reader will remember the original reference which was challenging amid all the other details provided. To be fair, he often puts a helpful page reference in brackets beside these points so one can trace back to the original reference.

I will probably have to reread this in order to remember all the details (perhaps several times), but overall I enjoyed the experience. I highly recommend this for those interested in history.