The History of Freedom, and Other Essays

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902, author.

Language:

English

Other Title:

History of Freedom

Place of Publication:

Project Gutenberg

Contents:

The history of freedom in antiquity

The history of freedom in Christianity

Sir Erskine May's Democracy in Europe

The massacre of St. Bartholomew

The Protestant theory of persecution

Political thoughts on the church

Introduction to L.A. Burd's Edition of Il principe by Machiavelli

Mr. Goldwin Smith's Irish history

Nationality

Döllinger on the temporal power

Döllinger's historical work

Cardinal Wiseman and the Home and foreign review

Conflicts with Rome

The Vatican Council

A history of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages / by Henry Charles Lea

The American commonwealth / by James Bryce

Historical philosophy in France and French Belgium and Switzerland / by Robert Flint.