Catholicism and history : the opening of the Vatican Archives
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Catholicism and history : the opening of the Vatican Archives
（The Herbert Hensley Henson lectures in the University of Oxford, 1976）
Cambridge University Press, 2008, c1978
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"First published 1978. This digitally printed version 2008"--T.p. verso
"Paperback re-issue"--Back cover
Bibliography: p. 163-165
Includes index
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Description
Continual and sometimes heated interest is shown in the control by governments over documents in their possession, and in the time during which access to them is denied - and not only on the part of the historians to whom the documents are of prime concern. Professor Chadwick summarises the gradual establishment of the papal records down to the beginning of the nineteenth century, when they were carried off to Paris on the orders of Napolean. Their return (for the most part) to Rome and the subsequent history of the relationship between their guardians and would-be users provide a lively narrative of human as well as historical interest. The author shows how an argument developed within the Vatican itself between the statesmen who wished rigourously to restrict what was released to the public and the historians who wanted free access. This important study of how new attitudes and techniques of history affected the Church is based upon the author's Herbert Hensley Henson Lectures in Oxford 1976, and will interest documentalists and general readers as well as ecclesiastical and general historians.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Record of Galileo's Trial: Marino Marini
- 3. The Record of Galileo's Trial: Theiner
- 4. The Minutes of the Council of Trent
- 5. The Opening of the Archives
- 6. The Borgia Pope
- 7. Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index.
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