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Eamon Duffy

Eamon Duffy: My favourite book of the Bible is Genesis
March 01, 2023
Irish historian Eamon Duffy on the ‘paradoxical power’ and gripping family drama of the Book of Genesis. Having to nominate one favourite biblical book, I will assume I am also allowed the psalms and the four Gospels, the fundamental texts of Christian liturgy. But how to choose between the rest – the sublime poetry of
‘The Stripping of the Altars’, 30 years on
March 30, 2022
Thirty years is a long shelf life for any historical work, and perhaps especially so for a historical work self-consciously designed as a challenge to received opinion. For all its bulk, The Stripping of the Altars is a polemic, written to contest the account of the English Reformation canonised in a long interpretative tradition that
In the field of Reformation fiction, two masterpieces stand out
May 22, 2020
The Mirror and The Light, Hilary Mantel’s fictional take on Thomas Cromwell – now in the running for a third Man Booker Prize – is just the latest attempt to take the events of the English Reformation and turn them into fiction. In this edited extract from his forthcoming book, A People’s Tragedy: Studies in
The German pope who took on the secular world
November 01, 2011
An extract from Eamon Duffy's new book, Ten Popes Who Shook the World
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