Inventing the Modern Papacy

Vol 2: From Feudal Kingdom to Global Soft Power (1789-1914)
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73497-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 86, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Series in Church History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Armenteros, Carolina

Ramón Solans, Francisco Javier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).