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The nineteenth century brought unremitting conflict over the Papal States. As temporal sovereignty slipped from the pope’s hands in the Italian peninsula, the papacy developed into a soft power on a global scale. This transformation was driven both by the papacy’s conscious efforts to reinvent itself, and by increasing lay Catholic support in the face of mounting challenges: war, revolution, the rise of nationalism and increasing secularization. Though the reinvention of Church government entailed divisions among Catholics, it eventually allowed the pope to develop a new authority, subtler yet firmer than the one before. This volume tells the story of this profound transformation from the point of view of social, political and cultural history. 

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Author:   Carolina Armenteros ,  Francisco Javier Ramón Solans
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   86
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004734975

ISBN 10:   900473497
Pages:   410
Publication Date:   25 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures IX Contributors X Introduction  Francisco Javier Ramón Solans Part 1 Re-imagining the Pope in the Catholic World 1 Rome and the Americas: Geopolitical Imagination and Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century  Elisa Cárdenas 2 The Papacy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Catholic Imagination  Sandra Yocum 3 Far Away yet so Close: Fueling the Veneration for the Popes in Canada (1867–1914)  Michel Dahan 4 Towards a Postcolonial Papacy  Imagining the Papacy from the Point of View of Filipino Nationalist Catholics in the Late Nineteenth Century  Peter Ben Smit Part 2 Old and New Challenges 5 Apostolic Rights of a Catholic Monarch? The Hungarian Royal Patronage and Supremacy (1417–1919)  Péter Tusor 6 The Royal Patronage in Question: the Clash between Portugal’s Historical Legacies and the Holy See’s Missionary Imperatives  Hugo Gonçalves Dores 7 The Father of Nations? Charisma, Peoples, and the Papacy in the Age of Nationalism  Ignazio Veca 8 A Civil Code for the Pope? French Protection and Legal Reform in the Papal States after 1848  Alessandro Capone 9 The Popes and the Pretenders: the Impossible Unity of Counter-Revolution in the Nineteenth Century  Alexandre Dupont 10 Old Catholic and New Roman  Centrifugal Movements within Nineteenth-Century Catholicism and their Contacts with the Episcopal Clergy in the Netherlands  Dirk Jan Schoon  11 The Kulturkampf and the Papacy  Sarah Scholl Part 3 Supporting the Papacy 12 Towards a Hieratic Stiffening: Rituals, Punishments, and Repentance in the Papal States after Pius’ VII Restoration (1814)  Marco Emanuele Omes 13 Transnational Soldiers of the Faith: International Catholic Mobilization in Defense of the Papacy (1860–1870)  Simon Sarlin 14 The Pope and His Cult in the Nineteenth Century: Practices of Devotion and Transnational Circulations  Bruno Dumons 15 Between the Majesty of a Monarch and the Proximity of a Priest  New Ways of Performing the Papacy in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century  Francisco Javier Ramón Solans Epilogue: the Evolvement of Papal Power since the Twentieth Century: Mobilization, Media, and Diplomacy from Leo XIII to Francis  Mariano P. Barbato Index

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Carolina Armenteros, Ph.D. (2005, University of Cambridge) is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Center for European Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. She has published multiple books and articles on political and religious thought in the Age of Revolutions, including The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs, 1794–1854 (Cornell, 2011). Francisco Javier Ramón Solans, Ph.D. (2012, University of Zaragoza/University of Paris 8) is Lecturer in Late Modern History at the University of Zaragoza. He has published monographs, edited volumes, and articles on 19th-century Catholicism, including Beyond the Andes: The Ultramontane Origins of a Latin American Church (1851–1910) (Brill, 2025).

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