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.
Judith Maltby | |
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Born | United States | 14 October 1957
Nationality | American[1] |
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) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
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Institutions |
Maltby was born on 14 October 1957 in the United States.[2][3][4] 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.[3][4] She undertook postgraduate research in early modern British history at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and then at Newnham College, Cambridge,[3] completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1992.[4] 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.[5]
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.[3][4] In 1993, having been appointed its college chaplain, she was elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[3] She is also a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford,[6][7] and was made reader in church history in 2004.[8]
Maltby's main research interests are church history and the history of early modern Britain.[3] 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".[6]
In 1999, Maltby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[4][9]
From 1989 to 1992, Maltby trained for Holy Orders on the Southern Theological Education and Training Scheme.[4] She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1992.[4] From 1992 to 1993, she was an honorary parish deacon at the Parish of Wilton with Netherhampton & Fugglestone in the Diocese of Salisbury.[4] She was ordained as a priest on 17 April 1994 by Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford,[4][10][11] and was thus among the first women ordained to the priesthood in the Church of England.[3][12]
Since 1993, Maltby has been the chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[3][4] She has also been honorary canon theologian of Leicester Cathedral since 2004,[4][13] and canon theologian of Winchester Cathedral since 2011.[14] In 2006, she was made an honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.[3][4][15]
Maltby opposed the creation of provincial episcopal visitors for opponents of the ordination of women.[16]