Eamon Duffy

Eamon Duffy ( born February 9, 1947 in Dundalk) is an Irish church historian and university teacher who was in 2002 awarded the Hawthornden Prize.

Life

After schooling Duffy completed a study of church history at the University of Cambridge with Professors Owen Chadwick and Gordon Rupp and was then first as a lecturer at the University of Durham and King's College London. Later, Duffy was appointed professor of church history at the University of Cambridge where he was temporarily also President of Magdalene College.

For his book The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (2001) In 2002 he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize. In addition to his teaching, he was a guest part in radio and television broadcasts, and was also a literary critic such as for The New York Review of Books.

Publications

  • Humanism, Reform and the Reformation: The Career of Bishop John Fisher, co-author Brendan Bradshaw (1989 )
  • The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400 to c.1580 (1994 )
  • Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes (1997)
  • Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition ( 2004)
  • Walking to Emmaus (2006)
  • Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 (2007)
  • Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (2009)
  • The Popes: The Complete Illustrated History, original title Saints and Sinners, 1999, ISBN 3-426-27109-5
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