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The education of a historian : a strange and wonderful story
- Title
- The education of a historian : a strange and wonderful story / John W. O'Malley.
- Author
- O'Malley, John W.
- Publication
- Philadelphia, PA : Saint Joseph's University Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 192 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this autobiographical memoir, John W. O'Malley recounts how his life-story is unintelligible apart from his craft as an historian and from the passion his craft inspired. The narrative is the straightforward story of how a young man of modest background from a small town in Ohio achieved international eminence as a historian of the religious culture of modern Europe. In some detail, therefore, this book tells how four of the twelve monographs that O'Malley published during his career had field-changing influence: "Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome" (1979), "The First Jesuits" (1993), "Trent and All That" (2000), and "What Happened at Vatican II" (2008). The book is, however, much more than a tedious review of scholarship. It teaches the reader lessons in historical method and lessons in what good history does for us. They are lessons easy to digest because they are taught not by abstract principles, but by following a historian in action as he learns in fits and starts how to interpret the past in ways that do less injustice to it than other ways"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Growing Up in Tiltonsville -- Trained as a Jesuit: America and Austria -- Trained as a Historian: Harvard and Rome -- Ever Deeper into the Renaissance -- From the Renaissance to the Jesuits -- Cultures, Councils, and Early Modern Catholicism.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-36
- ISBN
- 9780916101121
- 0916101126
- LCCN
- 2021009823
- OCLC
- 1243009733
- Author
- O'Malley, John W., author.
- Title
- The education of a historian : a strange and wonderful story / John W. O'Malley.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia, PA : Saint Joseph's University Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-36