Eamon Duffy

Duffy was born on 9 February 1947, in Dundalk, Ireland.[2] He describes himself as a "cradle Catholic".[2] He was educated at St Philip's School and the University of Hull. He undertook postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral advisers were Owen Chadwick and Gordon Rupp.[3]

Duffy specialises in 15th- to 17th-century religious history of Britain. He is also a former member of the Pontifical Historical Commission.[4] His work has done much to overturn the popular image of late-medieval Catholicism in England as moribund, and instead presents it as a vibrant cultural force. On weekdays from 22 October to 2 November 2007, he presented the BBC Radio 4 series 10 Popes Who Shook the World[5] – those popes featured were Peter, Leo I, Gregory I, Gregory VII, Innocent III, Paul III, Pius IX, Pius XII, John XXIII, and John Paul II.

• Longman–History Today Award for book of the year (1994): The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400–1580[6]
• Hawthornden Prize for Literature (2002): The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village[7]
• Honorary fellow, St Mary's College, Twickenham (2003). (He later resigned from the position in protest of management decisions at the college made by its principal, Philip Esler)[8]
• President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (2004–2005)[9]
• Honorary doctorates from the universities of Durham,[10] Hull,[11] and King's College London,[12] and from the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto
• Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2012)[13]
• Honorary Canon, Ely Cathedral (2014)[14]

• Humanism, Reform and the Reformation: The Career of Bishop John Fisher (1989), with Brendan Bradshaw
• The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400 to c.1580 (1992)
• Saints and Sinners, a History of the Popes. Yale University Press. 1997. ISBN 0-300-07332-1.
• The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (2001)
• "The Shock of Change: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Elizabethan Church of England", in Anglicanism and the Western Catholic Tradition (2003)
• Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition (2004)
• Walking to Emmaus (2006)
• Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570 (2006)
• Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition (2006)
• Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor (2009)
• Ten Popes Who Shook the World (2011)
• Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations (2012) ISBN 1441181172
• Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants, and the Conversion of England (2017)
• The Hope That Is Within You – Eamon Duffy in Conversation with Raymond Friel (2017)
• John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History (2019)

• Eamon Duffy, "Far from the Tree" (review of Rob Iliffe, Priest of Nature: the Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN 9780199995356), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXV, no. 4 (8 March 2018), pp. 28–29.

• Duffy's faculty page
• PBS interview with Duffy
• Red Cross Lecture 2015: Fact, Fiction And The Tudor Past