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History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

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We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.

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Eamon Duffy

Eamon Duffy

Born: February 9, 1947 (age 78)
Bio: Eamon Duffy is an Irish historian and academic. He is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College.
Known for:
  1. The Stripping of the Altars (1992)
  2. Marking the Hours (2006)
  3. Ten Popes Who Shook the World (2011)

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