Eamon Duffy

Eamon Duffy is a distinguished Irish-born British historian and academic, and Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Magdalene College and one of the most influential historians of religion in Britain. His landmark work The Stripping of the Altars transformed understanding of the English Reformation by arguing that late medieval Catholicism was vibrant and popular rather than corrupt and moribund. Reformation Divided examines the impact of the Reformation on English Catholic communities. Duffy's audiobooks and books are essential reading for anyone interested in the religious history of Britain and Europe.