Popes and European Revolutuion

by Owen Chadwick

Owen Chadwick describes the effects of the European Revolution of 1789 to 1815 on the Papacy, and compares Catholic Church of the ancient r gime to that of the early nineteenth century. The book shows how strongly the Counter-Reformation still worked in Italy during the eighteenth century; how it was the constitutional development of states, rather than the incoming of new ideas, which forced change; how traditional was the Catholic world even in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198269196
• ISBN13: 9780198269199
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.6"