The History of Freedom and Other Essays
Acton never completed his projected History of Liberty. We do have however several collections of his writings such as this one which contains 2 chapters from this planned history - on liberty in antiquity and Christianity - and many book reviews where one can piece together Acton’s approach to the writing of such a history. This volume consists of articles reprinted from the following journals: The Quarterly Review, The English Historical Review, The Nineteenth Century, The Rambler, The Home and Foreign Review, The North British Review, The Bridgnorth Journal.
The History of Freedom and Other Essays, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907).
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- Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton
- Editor: John Neville Figgis
- Editor: Reginald Vere Laurence
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Table of Contents
- PREFATORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- CHRONICLE
- INTRODUCTION
- I: THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM IN ANTIQUITY1
- II: THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM IN CHRISTIANITY1
- III: SIR ERSKINE MAY’S DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE1
- IV: THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW1
- V: THE PROTESTANT THEORY OF PERSECUTION1
- VI: POLITICAL THOUGHTS ON THE CHURCH1
- VII: INTRODUCTION TO L. A. BURD’S EDITION OF IL PRINCIPE BY MACHIAVELLI
- VIII: MR. GOLDWIN SMITH’S IRISH HISTORY1
- IX: NATIONALITY1
- X: DÖLLINGER ON THE TEMPORAL POWER1
- XI: DÖLLINGER’S HISTORICAL WORK1
- XII: CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE HOME AND FOREIGN REVIEW1
- XIII: CONFLICTS WITH ROME1
- XIV: THE VATICAN COUNCIL1
- XV: A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGES. By Henry Charles Lea1
- XVI: THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH. By James Bryce1
- XVII: HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE AND FRENCH BELGIUM AND SWITZERLAND. By Robert Flint1
- APPENDIX
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