Twentieth-Century Crusade - The Vatican's Battle to Remake Christian Europe
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780674983427
Subjects: Catholic church, europe; Papacy; Christianity and politics; Europe, politics and government, 20th century; Europe, foreign relations; Italy, politics and government
Description: Drawing on new archival research conducted in eight countries and in seven different languages, this book uncovers how the Vatican shaped the European international order after both world wars, via the novel use of international law, public diplomacy, and new media. Through careful attention to the entanglements of religion and politics, A Twentieth-Century Crusade traces the extraordinary story of how the Vatican moved from the margins to the center of European affairs after World War I.--