Judith Maltby

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| birth_place = United States

| nationality = American{{cite book |last=Beeson |first=Trevor |author-link=Trevor Beeson |year=2011 |title=The Church's Other Half: Women's Ministry |location=London |publisher=SCM Press |page=260 |isbn=978-0-334-04875-6}}

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| thesis_title = Approaches to the Study of Religious Conformity in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England

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Judith Diane Maltby {{post-nominals|country=GBR|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.

Early life and education

Maltby was born on 14 October 1957 in the United States.{{Cite web|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88249180.html|title = LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)}}{{cite web|title=Judith Maltby|url=https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Fellows/f/14/|website=Corpus Christi College|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=27 July 2017}}{{Crockford| surname = Maltby | forenames = Judith Diane | id = 1065 | accessed = 27 July 2017}} 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. She undertook postgraduate research in early modern British history at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1992. 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.{{cite thesis|last1=Maltby|first1=Judith Diane|title=Approaches to the study of religious conformity in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England: with special reference to Cheshire and the diocese of Lincoln|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306519|website=E-Thesis Online Service|accessdate=27 July 2017|date=1991|doi=10.17863/CAM.19545|type=Ph.D}}

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. In 1993, having been appointed its college chaplain, she was elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She is also a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford,{{cite web|title=Dr Judith Maltby|url=http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-judith-maltby|website=Faculty of Theology and Religion|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=27 July 2017}}{{cite web|title=Other Faculty members and associates|url=http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/other-faculty-members-and-associates|website=Faculty of Theology and Religion|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=27 July 2017}} and was made reader in church history in 2004.{{cite journal|title=Recognition of Distinction|journal=Oxford University Gazette|date=23 September 2004|volume=4706|page=Supplement (1)|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2004-5/supps/1_4706.htm|accessdate=27 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014141507/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2004-5/supps/1_4706.htm|archive-date=14 October 2016|url-status=dead}}

Maltby's main research interests are church history and the history of early modern Britain. 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".

In 1999, Maltby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).{{cite web|title=Fellows - M|url=http://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/RHS-Fellows-M.pdf|website=Royal Historical Society|accessdate=28 July 2017|date=May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728085124/http://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/RHS-Fellows-M.pdf|archive-date=28 July 2017|url-status=dead}}

=Ordained ministry=

From 1989 to 1992, Maltby trained for Holy Orders on the Southern Theological Education and Training Scheme. She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1992. From 1992 to 1993, she was an honorary parish deacon at the Parish of Wilton with Netherhampton & Fugglestone in the Diocese of Salisbury. She was ordained as a priest on 17 April 1994 by Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford,{{cite news|last1=Sproule|first1=Luke|title=Woman Bishop Could Be a Church 'First' for Oxfordshire|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11609702.Woman_bishop_could_be_a_Church____first____for_Oxfordshire/|accessdate=4 August 2017|work=Oxford Mail|date=19 November 2014}}{{cite news|title=Ordinations|work=Church Times|issue=6845|date=22 April 1994|page=6}} and was thus among the first women ordained to the priesthood in the Church of England.{{cite web|last1=Duckles|first1=Jo|title=Celebrating our women priests|url=https://www.oxford.anglican.org/celebrating-women-priests/|website=Diocese of Oxford|accessdate=27 July 2017|date=2014}}

From 1993 until she retired in 2023, Maltby was the chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.{{Crockford| surname = Maltby | forenames = Judith Diane | id = 1065 | accessed = 29 March 2025}} She was also been honorary canon theologian of Leicester Cathedral from 2004 to 2023,{{cite web|title=College of Canons|url=http://leicestercathedral.org/our-life-and-work/the-cathedral-foundation/college-of-canons/|website=Leicester Cathedral|accessdate=27 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702223500/http://leicestercathedral.org/our-life-and-work/the-cathedral-foundation/college-of-canons/|archive-date=2 July 2017|url-status=dead}} and canon theologian of Winchester Cathedral from 2011 to 2018.{{cite news|title=Current committee members|url=http://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/about-us/managing-ministry/current-committee-members/|website=Winchester Cathedral|accessdate=27 July 2017}} In 2006, she was made an honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.{{cite web|title=College of Canons and wider Chapter|url=http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/cathedral/college-canons-and-wider-chapter|website=Christ Church|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=27 July 2017|archive-date=14 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114065240/http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/cathedral/college-canons-and-wider-chapter|url-status=dead}}

=Views=

Maltby opposed the creation of provincial episcopal visitors for opponents of the ordination of women.{{cite news|title=Open Letter to the House of Bishops and the Members of General Synod|work=Church Times|issue=6794|date=15 October 1993|page=13}}

Selected works

{{cite book |editor1-last=Maltby |editor1-first=Judith D. |title=The Short Parliament (1640) Diary of Sir Thomas Aston |date=1988 |publisher=Royal Historical Society |location=London |isbn=9780861931163 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/shortparliament100asto }}
{{cite book |author=Judith Maltby |title=Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location= Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-79387-2}}
{{cite book |editor1-last=Durston |editor1-first=Christopher |editor2-last=Maltby |editor2-first=Judith |title=Religion in Revolutionary England |date=2006 |publisher=Manchester University Press |location=Manchester |isbn=978-0719064043 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/religioninrevolu00unse }}
{{cite book |editor1=Mark Chapman |editor1-link= Mark Chapman (theologian) |editor2=Judith Maltby |editor3=William Whyte |editor3-link= William Whyte (historian) |title=Established Church: Past, Present and Future |date=2011 |publisher=A & C Black |location=London |isbn=978-0-567-35809-7}}
{{cite book |editor1-last=Maltby |editor1-first=Judith |editor2-last=Shell |editor2-first=Alison |editor2-link=Alison Shell |title=Anglican women novelists: Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James |date=2019 |publisher=T&T Clark |location=London; New York |isbn=978-0567665850}}