Red Cross Lecture 2015: Fact, Fiction and the Tudor Past - Professor Eamon Duffy

Red cross Lecture given by Professor Eamon Duffy at Churchill College, Thursday 16 April 2015.
While traveling in Italy in 1859, Swiss Businessman Henri Dunant chanced to witness the aftermath of the battle of Solferino. Apalled by the suffering and lack of aid for the wounded survivors, he began to organising help from local villages. So began his lifetime of dedication to what was to become the World's largest independent humanitarian organisation.
The international Role of the Red Cross is well known. However, here too in East Anglia, services are provided unconditionally to vurnerable people in need by caring volunteers without whose dedication the charity could not operate.
PROFESSOR EAMON DUFFY
Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity in Cambridge University, a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College, and a Fellow of both the British and Royal Irish Academies.
In a series of controversial books on the English Reformation beginning in 1992 with The Stripping of the Altars: traditional religion in England 1400-1570 he has helped transform understanding of the Tudor age and the place of religion within it. His poignant study of the fate of a small Devon community during the reformation: The Voices of Moorbath, Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, was awarded the 2002 Hawthornden Prize for Literature. His history of the Papacy, Saints and Sinners: a history of the popes, first published in 1997, has run through many editions and has been translated into most of the world's major languages. He is a frequent radio and TV commentator on Papal affairs.
His lecture will examine the ways in which shifting versions of the turbulent sixteenth century, from Foxe's Book of Martyrs to Hillary Mantel's Booker Prize winning novels, have shaped our understanding of who we are and what we stand for.

[@krPeter2010]

a brilliant man

[@damionduffy3625]

A brilliant man indeed and a great uncle ❤️

[@jmd1723]

A pity most of the slides weren't taken into account when recording this.

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