Eamon Duffy

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

Life

After attending school, Duffy completed a degree in church history at the University of Cambridge with Professors Owen Chadwick and Gordon Rupp and was then a lecturer at the University of Durham and King's College London . Duffy later took on a professorship in church history at the University of Cambridge, where he was temporarily president of Magdalene College .

For his book The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (2001) he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 2002. In addition to his teaching activities, he also took part as a guest on radio and television programs 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)
in German language
  • The Popes: The Great Illustrated History , original title Saints and Sinners , 1999, ISBN 3-426-27109-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eamon Duffy: A Hero of the Church (book review on Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell)
personal data
SURNAME Duffy, Eamon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish church historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Dundalk