The Catholic Church as a Governmental Institution in the 16th and 17th Centuries – Mondes Sociaux
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Quand, pourquoi et comment la papauté s’est-elle mise à fonctionner comme une institution gouvernementale ? #religion #pape #histoire
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How did the papacy function as an institution of government? How and why did its structures differ from those of more typical ‘hereditary’ European monarchies? What impact did papal politics have on the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism? Much of Miles Pattenden’s work, a British and Australian joint national who specializes in Italian, and more broadly European History, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, has indeed concerned the papacy and the peculiar nature of the pope’s power and authority in the early modern period.
The work he developed at Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Casa de Velázquez) was dedicated to the production of a book manuscript entitled The Universal Church in the First Global Age, 1400-1870, which intends to explains how the Catholic Church became one of the largest organizations in human history, with the widest geographical reach in the early modern period. Pattenden’s starting point has been to observe that during the period from 1400 to 1870, the Church established its presence on all six of the world’s populated continents and its members transformed Catholicism from a local variant of medieval Christianity to a sophisticated multi-ethnic confession which proved an effective vehicle for colonial enterprises and state-building (...)
