Faculty members

Professor Eamon Duffy

Professor of the History of Christianity, and Fellow and Director of Studies, Magdalene College

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 Chairman of the editorial board of the Calendar of Papal Letters relating to Great Britain and Ireland, a member of the Pontifical Historical Commission, and sits on numerous editorial boards. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Mary¹s College, Strawberry Hill, and holds an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from the University of Hull.

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, and on the history of the papacy. His books include The Stripping of the Altars: traditional religion in England 1400-1570 , 1992, Saints and Sinners, first published in 1997, and since translated into many European languages, and into Chinese. The Voices of Morebath, Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, 2001, was awarded the 2002 Hawthornden Prize for Literature. 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 latest book, Marking the Hours, English People and their Prayers 1240-1570, appeared in 2007. He is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television.

Contact details

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