Acton and history / Owen Chadwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chadwick, Owen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton.

Historians--Great Britain--Biography.

Historians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Acton & History

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-58523-3

0-511-00487-7