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Catholicism and History - The Opening of the Vatican Archives (Paperback)
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Catholicism and History - The Opening of the Vatican Archives (Paperback)
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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.
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