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Eamon Duffy
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The distinguished church
historian, Eamon Duffy, is recognized  as one of the foremost
authorities of
popular religion in the Middle Ages and Reformation. He is Professor of
the
History of Christianity and Fellow and former President of Magdalene
College, University
of Cambridge. He has written several influential books. His The
Stripping of
the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (Yale University Press, 1992)
challenged
Protestant-oriented interpretations of the Reformation. It won the 1994
Longman’s History Today Prize for the
best historical work published in Britain. Duffy’s The
Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (Yale University Press, 2001) explored the
religion and
the lives of ordinary people in a small hamlet. It won the Hawthornden
Prize for Literature. Other of his books include: Saints
and Sinners: A History of the Popes (Yale University Press,
1997) and Marking the Hours:
English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 (Yale University Press,
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For more information, contact: Donald
Yerxa, yerxad@bu.edu
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