id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7417 Eamon Duffy - Wikipedia .html text/html 2156 370 66 He is a professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former president of Magdalene College.[1] 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 is also a former member of the Pontifical Historical Commission.[4] 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.[citation needed] On weekdays from 22 October to 2 November 2007, he presented the BBC Radio 4 series 10 Popes Who Shook the World[5] – 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. Honorary doctorates from the universities of Durham,[10] Hull,[11] and King's College London,[12] and from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7417.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7417.txt