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Author: Henry Charles LEAPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Henry Charles Lea, 1825-1909. [With a Portrait.].
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Author: Henry Charles LEAThe Inquisition's Inquisitor
Author: Richard L. KaganPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512825999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Writing in 1868, the Philadelphia publisher-cum-historian Henry Charles Lea informed a friend, “I am trying to collect the materials for a history of the Inquisition.” The collecting of these materials—books, manuscripts, and copies of thousands of pages of documents housed in musty European archives and libraries—would occupy Lea (1825–1909) for the remainder of his life. It also led to publication of A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (1884–87) and his acknowledged masterpiece, A History of the Inquisition of Spain (1906–7). Regarded as classics, these path-breaking books inaugurated better understanding of the history of an institution whose aims and methods troubled Lea and remain subjects of heated debate. The first biography of Lea since 1931, The Inquisition’s Inquisitor offers the most comprehensive review to date of his writing on the history of the Catholic Church. Though Lea is generally regarded as a leading practitioner of “scientific” history, Richard L. Kagan examines the extent to which Lea’s religious convictions compromised the ostensibly objective character of his work. Lea’s extensive surviving correspondence also enables Kagan to examine other aspects of Lea’s long and productive career as one of Philadelphia’s most prominent citizens. Lea appears here a young literary critic; a businessman who skillfully transformed his family’s publishing firm into the country’s leading producer of medical books; a dogged political reformer; and a philanthropist whose largesse benefitted many of Philadelphia’s cultural institutions. Newly discovered sources also allow for insights into Lea’s private life, notably his controversial infatuation with his first cousin and future wife, Anna C. Jaudon, and the periodic breakdowns that required abandonment of his beloved “intellectual pursuits.” The Inquisition’s Inquisitor concludes with a survey of Lea’s legacy with respect to current understanding of the Inquisition and to Philadelphia, where reminders of his accomplishments include an eponymous library at the University of Pennsylvania and public elementary school in nearby West Philadelphia.
Henry Charles Lea, 1825-1909 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Henry Charles LeaPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331818796
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Excerpt from Henry Charles Lea, 1825-1909 Creighton to gauge the real value of Mr. Lea's works, and to express an opinion of their interest and importance. Such a tribute from one historian to another working in the same field may well be looked on as the highest praise a sound scholar can have as his reward. That his works have also won the approbation of scholars on the Continent of Europe may be gathered from the opening remarks in an extended notice of his last book in the Jewish Quarterly Review for April, 1908: It is the fashion in American universities to give their professors a Sabbatical year one year of rest in every seven. A Harvard Don spent his year in travelling through Europe. Wherever he went he was deluged with inquiries as to Lea, the historian of the Inquisition, and when he came to Spain he was assured that the one American whom the Spaniards wished to welcome was Dr. Lea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Bulletin [1908-23]
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Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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A Catalogue of Portraits and Other Works of Art in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Henry Charles Lea, 1825-1909
Author: Portraits in the University of Pennsylvania
Author: University of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
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Category : Portraits
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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This volume includes descriptions of the two hundred and sixty-seven portraits in oil and pastel owned by the University of Pennsylvania, of which one hundred and two are here illustrated. The subjects are arranged chronologically by date of birth. At the end of the brief biographies, the measurements of the portraits are given in inches, height by width, together with the name of the artist where available, and the location of the portraits in the University buildings.--Provided by editor in foreword.
Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia
Author: Guy Stanton FordPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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