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Eamon Duffy

Irish historian (born 1947) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eamon Duffy
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Eamon Duffy FSA FBA KSG (born 9 February 1947) is an Irish historian. He is the emeritus professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow and former president of Magdalene College.[1]

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Early life

Duffy was born on 9 February 1947,[citation needed] in Dundalk, Ireland.[2] He describes himself as a "cradle Catholic".[2] He was educated at St Philip's School and the University of Hull. He undertook postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral advisers were Owen Chadwick and Gordon Rupp.[3]

Academic career

Duffy specialises in 15th- to 17th-century religious history of Britain.[4] He is also a former member of the Pontifical Historical Commission.[5] 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[6][7] which needed a multi generational Long Reformation to reshape Britain into a Protestant society.[8] On weekdays from 22 October to 2 November 2007, he presented the BBC Radio 4 series 10 Popes Who Shook the World[9] – 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.[10] In 2004 he was elected as a fellow of the British Academy.[11]

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Prizes and awards

Works

Books

  • Humanism, Reform and the Reformation: The Career of Bishop John Fisher (1989) (Editor; co-edited with Brendan Bradshaw) ISBN 0521340349
  • The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400 to 1580 (1992) ISBN 0-300-06076-9
  • Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes. (1997) ISBN 0-300-07332-1
  • The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (2001) ISBN 9780300091854
  • "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) ISBN 1853115592
  • Duffy, Eamon (2003). "The Long Reformation: Catholicism, Protestantism and the Multiformity of Reform". In Tyacke, Nicholas (ed.). England's Long Reformation: 1500–1800. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781135360948.
  • Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition (2004) ISBN 978-0826474797
  • Walking to Emmaus (2006) ISBN 978-0860124238
  • Marking the Hours: English People and their Prayers 1240–1570 (2006) ISBN 9780300117141
  • Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor (2009) ISBN 978-0300152166
  • Ten Popes Who Shook the World (2011) ISBN 978-0300176889
  • Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations (2012) ISBN 1441181172
  • Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants, and the Conversion of England (2017) ISBN 9781472934369
  • Royal Books and Holy Bones: Essays in Medieval Christianity (2018) ISBN 9781472953230
  • John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History (2019) ISBN 978-0281078493
  • A People's Tragedy: Studies in Reformation (2020) ISBN 978-1-4729-8385-5

Other

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

Further reading

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