Acton and History

Acton and History

Author: Owen Chadwick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-02

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521893183

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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.


Memoirs of an Aesthete

Memoirs of an Aesthete

Author: Harold Acton

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2008-12

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780571247660

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N this classic memoir Harold Acton offers a witty and vivid account of the first thirty-five years of his life (1904-39): from a boyhood among the dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, through his friendships with some of the great writers of his generation in Oxford and Paris, to his discovery of a spiritual home in Peking.


Acton Through Time

Acton Through Time

Author: Amanda Knights

Publisher:

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781445608679

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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Acton has changed and developed over the last century


The Vatican Collections

The Vatican Collections

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0870993216

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Nearly three hundred illustrations and a text reveal the entire range of the Vatican's artistic holdings, replete with priceless masterworks from all periods.