Politics and Religion in Napoleonic Italy
Subtitle: The War Against God, 1801-1814
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 26, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415266703
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.