The history of freedom, and other essays

Author(s)

• Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
• Figgis, John Neville
• Laurence, Reginald Vere

Bibliographic Information

The history of freedom, and other essays

by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, First Baron Acton ; edited with an introduction by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence

Macmillan, 1907

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• 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 H.C. Lea
• The American commonwealth, by J. Bryce
• Historical philosophy in France and French Belgium and Switzerland, by R. Flint

Details

• NCID: BA28970812
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxxix, 638 p., [1] leaf of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D210
  • DC : 909
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : History -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : History -- Philosophy