Judith Maltby
Historian and Anglican priest
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Judith Diane Maltby FRHistS (born 1957) is an American-born Anglican priest and historian, who specialises in post-Reformation church history and the history of early modern Britain. She has been the chaplain and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, since 1993, and reader in church history at the University of Oxford since 2004.
- 1992 (deacon)
- 1994 (priest)
Judith Maltby | |
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| Born | 14 October 1957 United States |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Christianity (Anglican) |
| Church | Church of England |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Approaches to the Study of Religious Conformity in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England (1992) |
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| Discipline | History |
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Early life and education
Maltby was born on 14 October 1957 in the United States.[1][2][3] She studied for a double major in English and history at the University of Illinois, graduating in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[2][3] She undertook postgraduate research in early modern British history at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and then at Newnham College, Cambridge,[2] completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1992.[3] Her doctoral thesis was titled Approaches to the Study of Religious Conformity in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England: With Special Reference to Cheshire and the Diocese of Lincoln.[4]
Career
Academic career
From 1987 to 1993, Maltby was a tutor in church history at Salisbury and Wells Theological College, an Anglican theological college in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.[2][3] In 1993, having been appointed its college chaplain, she was elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2] She is also a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford,[5][6] and was made reader in church history in 2004.[7]
Maltby's main research interests are church history and the history of early modern Britain.[2] Particular interests include "16th and 17th century English religion", "liturgy and the history of the Church of England", ecumenism, and "Anglican responses to persecution during the 1640–50s".[5]
In 1999, Maltby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[3][8]
Ordained ministry
From 1989 to 1992, Maltby trained for Holy Orders on the Southern Theological Education and Training Scheme.[3] She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1992.[3] From 1992 to 1993, she was an honorary parish deacon at the Parish of Wilton with Netherhampton & Fugglestone in the Diocese of Salisbury.[3] She was ordained as a priest on 17 April 1994 by Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford,[3][9][10] and was thus among the first women ordained to the priesthood in the Church of England.[2][11]
From 1993 until she retired in 2023, Maltby was the chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2][12] She was also been honorary canon theologian of Leicester Cathedral from 2004 to 2023,[12][13] and canon theologian of Winchester Cathedral from 2011 to 2018.[14][12] In 2006, she was made an honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.[2][3][15]
Views
Maltby opposed the creation of provincial episcopal visitors for opponents of the ordination of women.[16]
Selected works
- Maltby, Judith D., ed. (1988). The Short Parliament (1640) Diary of Sir Thomas Aston. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN 9780861931163.
- Judith Maltby (2000). Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79387-2.
- Durston, Christopher; Maltby, Judith, eds. (2006). Religion in Revolutionary England. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0719064043.
- Mark Chapman; Judith Maltby; William Whyte, eds. (2011). Established Church: Past, Present and Future. London: A & C Black. ISBN 978-0-567-35809-7.
- Maltby, Judith; Shell, Alison, eds. (2019). Anglican women novelists: Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James. London; New York: T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0567665850.
