Church and Society in Catholic Europe of the Eighteenth Century

by William James Callahan and David Higgs

Book Overview

Of the great European institutions of the Old Regime, the Catholic Church alone survived into the modern world. The Church that emerged from the period of revolutionary upheaval, which began in 1789, and from the long process of economic and social transformation characteristic of the nineteenth century, was very different from the great baroque Church that developed following the Counter-Reformation. These studies of the Church in France, Italy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521090776
• ISBN13: 9780521090773
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"