Inventing the Modern Papacy

Vol 2: From Feudal Kingdom to Global Soft Power (1789–1914)

Carolina Armenteros, Francisco Javier Ramón Solans (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

404 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-73497-5 (ISBN)

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The nineteenth century brought sustained political conflict over the Papal States. As the pope's temporal sovereignty waned, the papacy developed into a global soft power. This volume tells the story of this profound transformation.

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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Series in Church History ; 86
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-73497-X / 900473497X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-73497-5 / 9789004734975
Zustand	Neuware