This essay studies the reactions to french military presence in the Ecclesiastical State. In this particular territory the resistance to the rivolutionary troops showed itself as an ideological clash: the religious dimension revealed to be an element of great weight in the formation of a large part of the public opinion. The novelty of the connection war-republic forced the Pope to renounce to use the same means used by the other States and imposed him to resist utilizing mainly political means. For this reason, the presence in the papal State of the french revolutionary army induced the Church to become more and more modernally political, it means ideological and social.

Force of Arms, Force of Opinions: Counterrevolution in the Papal States, 1790-1799

TOSTI, Mario
2013

Abstract

This essay studies the reactions to french military presence in the Ecclesiastical State. In this particular territory the resistance to the rivolutionary troops showed itself as an ideological clash: the religious dimension revealed to be an element of great weight in the formation of a large part of the public opinion. The novelty of the connection war-republic forced the Pope to renounce to use the same means used by the other States and imposed him to resist utilizing mainly political means. For this reason, the presence in the papal State of the french revolutionary army induced the Church to become more and more modernally political, it means ideological and social.
2013
9781137328816
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