Politics and Religion in Napoleonic Italy
Subtitle: The War Against God, 1801-1814
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415443944
Subjects: History; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Europe - Italy; History / Italy; Ethnic Studies - General
First sentence: There are four great constants in the conflict between the Napoleonic empire and the Catholic Church during the epoca francese: the two protagonists in the struggle were the political forces of the Napoleonic regime and the post-Tridentine Church; the geography, both physical and human, in which they struggled was composed of the centre and periphery of the states of the Italian ancien regime, which the Napoleonic empire overthrew and annexed, and over which the Church had exerted a powerful influence.