| Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 | |||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | ||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1825-1909 | ||||||||||||||||||
| city | Philadelphia | ||||||||||||||||||
| state | PA | ||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Wilmington, DE; | ||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Henry Charles Lea was a collector, author, banker, scientist, publisher, and a historian of medieval Europe. He wrote extensively on the institutional and legal history of the Catholic Church. He wrote a series of books on the Inquisition, beginning with A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (1888) and continuing with A History of the Inquisition of Spain (1906-1907) and The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies (1908). He collected materials related to witchcraft beliefs, the prosecution of witches by the Inquisition, and contemporary reports of witchcraft. In order to conduct his research using primary sources in European and Latin American archives, Lea arranged to have documents in those archives copied and sent to him. Through purchases, Henry Charles Lea acquired a major library of primary and secondary source materials relating to medieval European history, all of which were donated to the University of Pennsylvania upon his death. |
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| decades | 1880-1890 1890-1900 1900-1910 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:21 | ||||||||||||||||||
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