Eamon Duffy is an Irish Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and former President of Magdalene College. The University of Cambridge (usually abbreviated as Cantab. ... Full name The College of Saint Mary Magdalene Motto Garde ta Foy Keep your Faith Named after Mary Magdalene Previous names Buckingham College Established 1428 Sister College(s) Magdalen College Master Duncan Robinson Location Magdalene Street Undergraduates 335 Postgraduates 169 Homepage Boatclub Magdalene College (pronounced ) was founded in 1428 as...
He specializes in 15th to 17th century religious history of Britain. His work has done much to overturn the popular image of late-medieval Catholicism in England as dead, and instead presents it as a vibrant cultural force.
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Humanism, Reform and the Reformation: The Career of Bishop John Fisher (1989), with Brendan Bradshaw
Duffy weaves these otherwise cryptic details into the wider tapestry of events of the time, and by analysing the result shows the devastating revolution that took place in ordinary people's lives.
eamonduffy, through his intricate study of sir christopher's (morebath's parish preist's)written acounts of parish life, presents a deliciously partisan and empathetic tale of one man's struggle to fathom the enormity of religious reform in the sixteenth century.
Duffy's Morebath has received more than enough hype to require further praise from me. It is, clearly, an excellent and scholarly account based on a (for the most part) sound...
EamonDuffy, chairman of the faculty board of divinity at Cambridge University, will deliver the 18th Shannon-Clark Lecutre in English at Washington and Lee University on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 8 p.m.
Duffy is one of the sponsors of the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies and is chairman of the multi-volumed Calendar of Papal Letters Relating to Great Britain and Ireland.
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