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Diarmaid MacCulloch, DD, FBA, FRHistS, FSA, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and prize-winning author, has written extensively on the sixteenth century and beyond it. His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (Penguin Press) and the 大象传媒 TV series based on it first appeared in 2009; the book won the Cundill Prize, the world’s largest prize for history, in 2010. He was knighted in the UK New Year’s Honours List of 2012. His latest book is Silence: a Christian History, and he is writing a biography of Thomas Cromwell. His three-part TV series for 大象传媒2, How God made the English, aired in March 2012.

Diarmaid MacCulloch was brought up in an East Anglian country rectory, and after studying and lecturing at Churchill College, Cambridge and Bristol, is now a Fellow of Saint Cross College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of London; he co-edits the Journal of Ecclesiastical History. He was ordained deacon in the Church of England in 1987. He has written extensively on Tudor England; his biography Thomas Cranmer: a Life (1996) won the 1996 Whitbread Biography, Duff Cooper and James Tait Black Prizes. His Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 (2003), with Penguin/Allen Lane, won the 2004 Wolfson History Prize, the 2004 British Academy Prize and the 2005 Non-Fiction Award of the National Book Critics Circle of America. His A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (winner of the 2010 Hessell-Tiltman Prize and the 2010 Cundill History Prize, Montreal, the world’s largest history book prize) was first published by Allen Lane in 2009, and was followed by the 大象传媒 series A History of Christianity (given the Radio Times Readers’ Award, May 2010).