Eamon Duffy

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Irish historian (born 1947)

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::summary Irish historian (born 1947) ::

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sub_disciplineHistory of Christianity
workplacesMagdalene College, Cambridge
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notable_worksThe Stripping of the Altars (1992)
The Voices of Morebath (2001)
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Early life

Duffy was born on 9 February 1947, in Dundalk, Ireland. He describes himself as a "cradle Catholic".

Academic career

Duffy specialises in 15th- to 17th-century religious history of Britain. He is also a former member of the Pontifical Historical Commission. His work has done much to overturn the popular image of late-medieval Catholicism in England as moribund, and instead presents it as a vibrant cultural force which needed a multi generational Long Reformation to reshape Britain into a Protestant society.

He was president of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain from 2002-2004.

On weekdays from 22 October to 2 November 2007, he presented the BBC Radio 4 series 10 Popes Who Shook the World – those popes featured were Peter, Leo I, Gregory I, Gregory VII, Innocent III, Paul III, Pius IX, Pius XII, John XXIII, and John Paul II.

Duffy moved to Magdalene College in the University of Cambridge in 1979, and was professor of the history of Christianity from 2003 to 2014. Since 2014 he has been emeritus professor. In 2004 he was elected as a fellow of the British Academy.

Prizes and awards

Works

Books

  • Humanism, Reform and the Reformation: The Career of Bishop John Fisher (1989) (Editor; co-edited with Brendan Bradshaw)
    • Transferred to digitally printed hardback in 2008,
    • Transferred to paperback in 2008,
  • The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400 to 1580 (1992)
    • Second edition issued in 2005,
    • Third edition issued in 2022,
  • (1997)
  • Transferred to paperback in 1998,
  • Second edition issued in 2002,
  • Third edition issued in 2006,
  • Fourth edition issued in 2014,
  • The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (2001)
    • Transferred to paperback in 2003,
  • "The Shock of Change: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Elizabethan Church of England", in Anglicanism and the Western Catholic Tradition (2003, edited by Stephen Platten)
  • Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition (2004)
    • Second edition issued in 2006,
  • Walking to Emmaus (2006)
  • Marking the Hours: English People and their Prayers 1240–1570 (2006)
    • Transferred to paperback in 2011,
  • Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor (2009)
    • Transferred to paperback in 2010,
  • Ten Popes Who Shook the World (2011)
  • Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations (2012)
    • Transferred to paperback in 2014,
  • Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants, and the Conversion of England (2017)
  • Royal Books and Holy Bones: Essays in Medieval Christianity (2018)
  • John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History (2019)
  • A People's Tragedy: Studies in Reformation (2020)

Other

  • "Eamon Duffy in Conversation with Raymond Friel", in The Hope That Is Within You (Audio CD, 2017)

References

References

  1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040224073356/http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/people/fellows/allfellows.html Alphabetical list of all fellows], [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]].
  2. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3aWWI1EOo2cC&pg=PA11 "Confessions of a Cradle Catholic"]
  3. (22 July 2013). "Professor Eamon Duffy FBA". University of Cambridge.
  4. Duffy, Eamon. (2006). "The English Reformation After Revisionism". Renaissance Quarterly.
  5. link. (3 March 2012)
  6. Duffy, Eamon. (2005). "The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, {{circa". Yale University Press.
  7. Duffy, Eamon. (2001). "The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village". Yale University Press.
  8. "Officers of the Association". Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain.
  9. "Ten Popes Who Shook the World". BBC Radio 4.
  10. "Lecture by Professor Eamon Duffy". University of Bergen.
  11. "Professor Eamon Duffy FBA". British Academy.
  12. (16 September 2011). "Awards Winners". [[History Today]].
  13. (26 May 2002). "This constant stream of English life". [[The Daily Telegraph]].
  14. (25 September 2012). "Top historian criticises St Mary's for 'grotesque' treatment of professor". [[Catholic Herald]].
  15. "Past Presidents - Ecclesiastical History Society".
  16. (3 July 2013). "Prof Eamon Duffy receives Honorary Degree". [[Durham University]].
  17. "Honorary Graduates – A to E". [[University of Hull]].
  18. (26 November 2009). "Honorary Degree ceremony". [[King's College London]].
  19. "Members List". [[Royal Irish Academy]].
  20. (14 May 2014). "New Canons Admitted and Installed at Ely Cathedral".

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