Background
Eamon Duffy was born on February 9, 1947 in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland.
Eamon Duffy was educated at St Philip's School.
Eamon Duffy received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Hull in 1968.
Eamon Duffy became Doctor of Philosophy at Selwyn College in 1972.
Eamon Duffy undertook Doctor of Divinity studies at the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral advisers were Owen Chadwick and Gordon Rupp.
Pontifical Historical Commission
(The attitudes towards the human body held by different br...)
The attitudes towards the human body held by different branches of medieval theology are currently a major focus of scholarly attention. This first volume from York Medieval Press includes studies of the metaphor of man as head and woman as body, Abelard, women and Catharism, the female body as an impediment to ordination, women mystics, and the University of York's 1995 Quodlibet Lecture given by Eamon Duffy on the early iconography and "lives" of St Francis of Assisi.
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1997
(In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved f...)
In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and antipapal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals that transformed their mental and material worlds under Henry VIII and his three children? In this book a reformation historian takes us inside the mind and heart of Morebath, a remote and tiny sheep farming village on the southern edge of Exmoor. The bulk of Morebath’s conventional archives have long since vanished.
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2003
(This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church ...)
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system.
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2005
(Eamon Duffy explores the first and longest section of the...)
Eamon Duffy explores the first and longest section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, its teaching on the basic framework of Catholic belief, as found in the Apostle's Creed. Drawing on material from a whole range of Christian tradition, from the scriptures and early fathers to the work of modern theologians like Hans Urs von Balthasar and Juan Luis Segundo, he traces the distinctive ideas at work in the Catechism, and assesses its faithfulness to the teachings of the council. His book provides catechists, priests, teachers and the general reader with a non-technical and fascinating guide to the Catechism, in the light of theological developments and debate in the Church since the Council. Illustrated with material from contemporary literature as well as theology and liturgy, it also provides an introduction in its own right to some of the most fundamental and urgent themes of Christian belief.
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2005
('The richness of the Church's past is a liberation, not a...)
'The richness of the Church's past is a liberation, not a straitjacket. It is a source of confidence in launching into and uncharted future.' Eamon Duffy is both a practising Roman Catholic and distinguished historian, whose writings have changed the course of English Reformation studies.
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2006
(Professor Eamon Duffy is by any reckoning a scholar of th...)
Professor Eamon Duffy is by any reckoning a scholar of the first rank and a man of deeply held religious belief, who tackles the issue of being a Christian in the modern world. Walking to Emmaus assembles the best of his addresses and includes an impressive autobiographical introduction.
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2006
(In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamo...)
In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the Book of Hours, unquestionably the most intimate and most widely used book of the later Middle Ages. He examines surviving copies of the personal prayer books which were used for private, domestic devotions, and in which people commonly left traces of their lives.
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2007
(The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of ...)
The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their religious beliefs seared the rule of “Bloody Mary” into the protestant imagination as an alien aberration in the onward and upward march of the English-speaking peoples.
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2009
(This book assembles ten special studies, each devoted to ...)
This book assembles ten special studies, each devoted to an aspect of Fisher's multifaceted career or to exploring the intellectual and religious outlook of someone who was at the same time a moderniser, a reformer and an opponent of the Reformation. John Fisher's career provides an illuminating perspective on English religious and intellectual history in a crucial phase of development.
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2009
(The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity's most powerfu...)
The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity's most powerful leaders for nearly two millennia, and their influence has extended far beyond the purely spiritual. The popes have played a central role in the history of Europe and the wider world, not only shouldering the spiritual burdens of their ancient office, but also in contending with - and sometimes precipitating - the cultural and political crises of their times. In an acclaimed series of BBC radio broadcasts Eamon Duffy explored the impact of ten popes he judged to be among the most influential in history.
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2011
(In this wide-ranging book, Professor Eamon Duffy explores...)
In this wide-ranging book, Professor Eamon Duffy explores the broad sweep of the English Reformation, and the ways in which that Reformation has been written about. Tracing the fraught history of religious change in Tudor England, and the retellings of that history to shape a protestant national identity, once again he emphasizes the importance of the study of late medieval religion and material culture for our understanding of this most formative and fascinating of eras.
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2012
(This intelligent and richly resourced collection, drawn t...)
This intelligent and richly resourced collection, drawn together by Professor Eamon Duffy, brings together beautiful and memorable prayers and hymns from a wide range of sources. This is not a mere anthology of prayers, but rather a comprehensive guide to praying the big things of life and faith, using words with resonance and eloquence to convey a Catholic Christianity that stretches across Eastern and Western traditions, Orthodox as well as Latin Catholic.
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2014
(This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary histor...)
This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.
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2015
(The reign of Queen Mary is popularly remembered largely f...)
The reign of Queen Mary is popularly remembered largely for her re-introduction of Catholicism into England, and especially for the persecution of Protestants, memorably described in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. Mary's brief reign has often been treated as an aberrant interruption of England's march to triumphant Protestantism, a period of political sterility, foreign influence and religious repression rightly eclipsed by the happier reign of her more sympathetic half-sister, Elizabeth.
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2016
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Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The religious revolution initiated by Martin Luther is usually referred to as 'The Reformation', a tendentious description implying that the shattering of the medieval religious foundations of Europe was a single process, in which a defective form of Christianity was replaced by one that was unequivocally benign, 'the midwife of the modern world'.
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2017
(In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engage...)
In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation. In the process he opens windows on the vibrant and multifaceted beliefs and practices by which medieval people made sense of their world.
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2018
Eamon Duffy was born on February 9, 1947 in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland.
Eamon Duffy was educated at St Philip's School. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Hull in 1968. He became Doctor of Philosophy at Selwyn College in 1972. He undertook Doctor of Divinity studies at the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral advisers were Owen Chadwick and Gordon Rupp.
Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge. He previously held chairs at King's College, London and at the University of Birmingham. He's also a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College. He is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television.
Duffy holds honorary doctorates and awards from many universities in Britain and North America.
Being a religious historian Eamon Duffy, a fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, specializes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England. His first book, which he edited, was a collection of essays from various scholars on the life and legacy of Bishop Richard Challoner, who died in 1781 after leading the English Catholic Church for over fifty years. Challoner and His Church (1981), according to a British Book News critic, was welcome for its accessibility. The critic noted that “some aspects of Challoner’s life can be seen in sharper focus.” The reviewer appreciated the fresh outlook and technical expertise of the historians whose work Duffy had gathered in the volume.
Professor Duffy's 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.
(This book assembles ten special studies, each devoted to ...)
2009(Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of ...)
2017(The reign of Queen Mary is popularly remembered largely f...)
2016(In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engage...)
2018(In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved f...)
2003(Eamon Duffy explores the first and longest section of the...)
2005(In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamo...)
2007(This intelligent and richly resourced collection, drawn t...)
2014(The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of ...)
2009(Professor Eamon Duffy is by any reckoning a scholar of th...)
2006(In this wide-ranging book, Professor Eamon Duffy explores...)
2012(The Bishops of Rome have been Christianity's most powerfu...)
2011(The attitudes towards the human body held by different br...)
1997(This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church ...)
2005(This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary histor...)
2015('The richness of the Church's past is a liberation, not a...)
2006Eamon Duffy describes himself as a "cradle Catholic".