Preface; 1. The making of an historian; 2. At the Vatican archives; 3. At the first Vatican Council; 4. After the Council; 5. Acton and Newman; 6. With Gladstone; 7. Döllinger and Acton; 8. Professor Lord Acton; 9. The Acton library.
An edited collection of Owen Chadwick's principal writings on Lord Acton, the Victorian historian.
'Chadwick's essays come together beautifully ... an admirable and enormously readable collection.' Edward Norman, Church Times 'What a joy it is to read a book which is so delightfully written ... I have seldom been so enchanted.' The Expository Times
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