Eamon Duffy

Who is Eamon Duffy?

Eamon Duffy is an Irish Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College.

He describes himself as a "cradle Catholic" and specializes in 15th- to 17th-century religious history of Britain. He is also a former member of the Pontifical Historical Commission. 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 - 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.