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Eamon Duffy profile

Teaching Officers | Professor of the History of Christianity, and Fellow of Magdalene College Contact details Faculty of Divinity West Road Cambridge CB3 9BS Tel.: 01223 763039 Fax: 01223 763003 Email: ed10000@cam.ac.uk Profile

Courses taught this academic year

Christianity and the Transformation of Culture Reform and Renewal in Christian History Christian Culture in the Western World Body, Self and Society

Research interests

Iconography and history of medieval Christian art Popular religion in the Middle Ages and Reformation

Additional information Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity, and a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College. His research and teaching interests centre on the history of late medieval and early-modern popular religious belief and practice, on Christian art and material culture, on the history of the English Roman Catholic community, and on the history of the papacy. An Irishman educated largely in England, he did his doctoral work at Cambridge under Owen Chadwick and Gordon Rupp, and taught formerly at the University of Durham and at Kings College London. He is Chairman of the editorial board of the Calendar of Papal Letters relating to Great Britain and Ireland, a multi-volume project which aims to publish all the Vatican material relating to these islands between the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries. A former member of the Pontifical Historical Commission, he sits on numerous editorial boards and advisory panels, including the Fabric Commission of Westminster Abbey. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow St Marys College, Strawberry Hill, and holds honorary Doctorates from the University of

Hull, and from King's College London. He is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television. His current graduate students are at work on topics ranging from the cult of the saints in the late Middle Ages, to the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the English Roman Catholic episcopate. He himself is currently working on Sir Thomas Mores English writings against heresy. In addition to many articles and edited collections, his books include The Stripping of the Altars: traditional religion in England 1400-1570, (Yale 1992), which won the 1994 Longman History Today Prize. It has had a wide influence not only on the historiography of the reformation, but on thinking about the art , architecture and literature of late medieval and early modern England. Saints and Sinners, a history of the Popes, was first published in 1997 in association with a six part television series: it has since been translated into many languages, including Chinese. The Folio Society edition was presented to Pope Benedict XVI by the Mayor of London during the papal visit in September 2010. The Voices of Morebath, Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, 2001, is a micro-study of the impact of the reformation on a single Devon village. It was awarded the 2002 Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and was shortlisted for the BBC;s Samuel Johnson prize. It formed the basis for an eight-week National Theatre workshop directed by Phylida Lloyd in 2005. A book of essays on religious topics Faith of Our Fathers, reflections on Catholic Tradition, was published in 2004, and a collection of University sermons, Walking to Emmaus, in 2006. His 2005 Riddell Lectures at the University of Newcastle were published as Marking the Hours, English People and their Prayers 1240-1570, in 2007. His most recent book, Fires of Faith, Catholic England under Mary Tudor, appeared in 2009.