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  • Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World

    The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy

    Despite its many crises, especially in Western Europe, there are 1.3 billion Catholics in the world today. The Church remains a powerful but controversial institution.In Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World, Ambrogio A. Caiani explores the epic history of the Roman Catholic Church. Throughout the early modern period, the Pope was a secular prince in central Italy. Catholicism was not merely a ... Leer más

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  • Flirting with Evil

    The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation

    The history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century is one of spies, scandals and bad political choices. It's a shadowy, ornate world of cover-ups and hidden motives. In this book, Ambrogio Caiani lifts back the heavy velvet curtains of the chancel and peers behind the locked mahogany doors of the Vatican to reveal the shocking truths that make up a century of Catholic corruption.For many, ... Leer más

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  • A History of the European Restorations

    Governments, States and Monarchy

    Europe's Restorations were characterised by their evolving dialectics. The chapters in this first volume address the key questions and controversies of Napoleonic history from a national and international perspective. From the re-ordering of the European world through the tools of intervention, occupation and diplomacy, to the creation of new constitutional monarchies across France, Scandinavia ... Leer más

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  • To Kidnap a Pope

    Napoleon and Pius VII

    A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state"In gripping, vivid prose, Caiani brings to life the struggle for power that would shape modern Europe. It all makes for a historical read which is both original and enjoyable."—Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette"Both an exciting narrative and a fine work of ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • A History of the European Restorations

    Culture, Society and Religion

    de Stephen Bann ...
    The second volume shines a light on the cultural and social changes that took place during the epoch of European Restorations, when the death of the Napoleonic empire existed as a crucial moment for contemporaries. Expanding the transnational approach of Volume I, the chapters focus on the transmutation of ordinary experiences of war into folklore and popular culture, the emergence of grassroots ... Leer más

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  • Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789–1792

    The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which ... Leer más

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    Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World

    The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy

    Narrado por Mark Elstob ...

    Completo

    18 hora 29 minutos

    An ambitious, authoritative history of the Roman Catholic Church in the modern age.Despite its many crises, especially in Western Europe, there are still 1.2 billion Catholics in the world and the Church remains a powerful, controversial and defiantly archaic institution.After the French Revolution and the democratic rebellions of 1848, the Church retreated, especially under Pius IX, into a ... Leer más

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    To Kidnap a Pope

    Napoleon and Pius VII

    Narrado por Paul Heitsch ...

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    15 hora 15 minutos

    A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state.In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalizing an agreement in 1801, relations between them ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    Flirting with Evil

    The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation

    Narrado por Mark Elstob ...

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    16 hora 28 minutos

    Bloomsbury presents Flirting with Evil by Ambrogio A. Caiani, read by Mark Elstob.The history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century is one of spies, scandals and bad political choices. It’s a shadowy, ornate world of cover-ups and hidden motives. In this book, Ambrogio Caiani lifts back the heavy velvet curtains of the chancel and peers behind the locked mahogany doors of the Vatican to ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre

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