PUBLIC LECTURE: The Virgin Mary and the Protestant Reformers

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University.He is a Fellow of the British Academy. His massive biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996) won three prizes including the Whitbread Biography Prize. His most recent book Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 is a magisterial work of over 800 pages which breaks new ground. Diarmaid MacCulloch's research interests are in the Reformation throughout Europe, and religion, politics and society in the British Isles in the sixteenth century.

The lecture on 'The Virgin Mary and the Protestant Reformers' will focus on one of the important themes of religious division in the European tradition.