Eamon Duffy
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Eamon Duffy | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Duffy in 2010 | |
| Born | 9 February 1947 Dundalk, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | History of Christianity |
| Institutions | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| Notable works | The Stripping of the Altars (1992) |
Eamon Duffy FSA FBA KSG (born 1947) is an Irish historian. He is a professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former president of Magdalene College.[1]
Early life[edit]
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[edit]
Duffy specialises in 15th- to 17th-century religious history of Britain. 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.
Prizes and awards[edit]
- Longman–History Today Award for book of the year (1994): The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400–1580[6]
- Hawthornden Prize for Literature (2002): The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village[7]
- Honorary fellow, St Mary's College, Twickenham (2003). (He later resigned from the position in protest at management decisions at the college made by its principal, Philip Esler)[8]
- President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (2004–2005)[9]
- 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
- Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2012)[13]
- Honorary Canon, Ely Cathedral (2014)[14]
Books[edit]
- Humanism, Reform and the Reformation: The Career of Bishop John Fisher (1989), with Brendan Bradshaw
- The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400 to c.1580 (1992)
- Saints and Sinners, a History of the Popes. Yale University Press. 1997. ISBN 0-300-07332-1.
- The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (2001)
- "The Shock of Change: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Elizabethan Church of England", in Anglicanism and the Western Catholic Tradition (2003)
- Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition (2004)
- Walking to Emmaus (2006)
- Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570 (2006)
- Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition (2006)
- Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor (2009)
- Ten Popes Who Shook the World (2011)
- Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations (2012) ISBN 1441181172
- Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants, and the Conversion of England (2017)
- The Hope That Is Within You – Eamon Duffy in Conversation with Raymond Friel (2017)
- John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History (2019)
References[edit]
- ^ Alphabetical list of all fellows, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
- ^ a b "Confessions of a Cradle Catholic"
- ^ "Professor Eamon Duffy FBA". Faculty of Divinity. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ Eamon Duffy profile Archived 3 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ten Popes Who Shook the World". BBC Radio 4.
- ^ "Awards Winners". History Today. 16 September 2011. Archived from the original on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ Myers, Kevin (26 May 2002). "This constant stream of English life". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "Top historian criticises St Mary's for 'grotesque' treatment of professor". Catholic Herald. 25 September 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ Past Presidents - Ecclesiastical History Society
- ^ "Prof Eamon Duffy receives Honorary Degree". Durham University. 3 July 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "Honorary Graduates – A to E". University of Hull. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "Honorary Degree ceremony". King's College London. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "Members List". Royal Irish Academy. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ^ "New Canons Admitted and Installed at Ely Cathedral". 14 May 2014. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
Further reading[edit]
- Eamon Duffy, "Far from the Tree" (review of Rob Iliffe, Priest of Nature: the Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN 9780199995356), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXV, no. 4 (8 March 2018), pp. 28–29.
External links[edit]
- Duffy's faculty page
- PBS interview with Duffy
- Red Cross Lecture 2015: Fact, Fiction And The Tudor Past
| Professional and academic associations | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Brenda Bolton |
President of the Ecclesiastical History Society 2004–2005 |
Succeeded by Averil Cameron |
| Awards | ||
| Preceded by Helen Simpson |
Hawthornden Prize 2002 |
Succeeded by William Fiennes |
Categories:
- 1947 births
- 20th-century Irish historians
- 20th-century Irish male writers
- 20th-century Roman Catholics
- 21st-century Irish historians
- 21st-century Irish male writers
- 21st-century Roman Catholics
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of Hull
- Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Historians of the Catholic Church
- Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Irish historians of religion
- Irish Roman Catholics
- Living people
- People educated at St Philip's School
- People from Dundalk
- Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society
- Reformation historians
- Roman Catholic scholars