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Acton and history / Owen Chadwick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511004877
  • 9780511004872
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Acton and history.DDC classification:
  • 907/.202 B 21
LOC classification:
  • D15.A25 C485 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The making of a historian -- At the Vatican Archives -- At the First Vatican Council -- Acton and Newman -- With Gladstone -- Dollinger and Acton -- Professor Lord Acton -- The Acton Library.
Summary: This is an edited collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, the distinguished Victorian historian and founder of The Cambridge Modern History. Some of the pieces are no longer readily available, while one has never before appeared in English. All have been revised, sometimes extensively. Acton (1834-1902) was born in Naples, the grandson of the Neapolitan prime minister Sir John Acton. Educated at Munich University, he sat as a Liberal MP 1859-64, was created a baron in 1869, and in 1895 was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. This book explains the important aspects of Acton's complex mind and his great contribution to historical studies. Professor Chadwick, himself a former holder of Acton's Regius Chair, is the leading senior authority both on Acton and on matters of church and state in the nineteenth century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The making of a historian -- At the Vatican Archives -- At the First Vatican Council -- Acton and Newman -- With Gladstone -- Dollinger and Acton -- Professor Lord Acton -- The Acton Library.

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This is an edited collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, the distinguished Victorian historian and founder of The Cambridge Modern History. Some of the pieces are no longer readily available, while one has never before appeared in English. All have been revised, sometimes extensively. Acton (1834-1902) was born in Naples, the grandson of the Neapolitan prime minister Sir John Acton. Educated at Munich University, he sat as a Liberal MP 1859-64, was created a baron in 1869, and in 1895 was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. This book explains the important aspects of Acton's complex mind and his great contribution to historical studies. Professor Chadwick, himself a former holder of Acton's Regius Chair, is the leading senior authority both on Acton and on matters of church and state in the nineteenth century.

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