Richard Kagan, Academy Professor and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emeritus of History at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, will discuss his new book, The Inquisition’s Inquisitor: Henry Charles Lea of Philadelphia, for the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance.

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 Kagan examines the extent to which Lea’s religious convictions compromised the ostensibly objective character of his work.

Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences and The Academy at Johns Hopkins

Stern Center lectures are directed toward Hopkins graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.

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