Eamon Duffy

Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book is Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570. (May 2008)

From the Review

May 29, 2008: 'The First Great Pandemic in History'

Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541–750 edited by Lester K. Little

March 29, 2007: Early Christian Impresarios

Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea by Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams

The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship by Megan Hale Williams

October 19, 2006: The Holy Terror

God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman

February 9, 2006: The Plot That Failed

God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot by Alice Hogge

Remember Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day by James Sharpe

December 19, 2002: The Cradle Will Rock

The History of the European Family: Volume 1, Family Life in Early Modern Times, 1500–1789 edited by David I. Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli

Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe by Steven Ozment

Medieval Children by Nicholas Orme

May 23, 2002: On the Brink of Oblivion

From the Brink of the Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages by John Aberth

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe by Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell

July 5, 2001: A Deadly Misunderstanding

Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews James Carroll

December 21, 2000: The Luck of the English

A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603 by Simon Schama

Books by Eamon Duffy

Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (2001)
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (1999)
Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (1994)