Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College. His latest book, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations, was published in May. (June 2012)
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Books Held by Kings
June 7, 2012
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination
an exhibition at the British Library, London, November 11, 2011–March 13, 2012
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The Rise of Sacred Song
January 12, 2012
The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years
by Christopher Page
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Sacred Bones & Blood
August 18, 2011
Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
by Caroline Walker Bynum
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A Hero of the Church
December 23, 2010
Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint
by John Cornwell
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The Greatest of the Saint-Kings?
April 8, 2010
Saint Louis
by Jacques Le Goff, translated from the French by Gareth Evan Gollrad
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‘The First Great Pandemic in History’
May 29, 2008
Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541–750
edited by Lester K. Little
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Early Christian Impresarios
March 29, 2007
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
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The Holy Terror
October 19, 2006
God’s War: A New History of the Crusades
by Christopher Tyerman
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The Plot That Failed
February 9, 2006
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
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The Cradle Will Rock
December 19, 2002
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
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On the Brink of Oblivion
May 23, 2002
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
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The Luck of the English
December 21, 2000
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603
by Simon Schama