The Roman Question - Softcover

About, Edmond

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ISBN 10: 1444450794 ISBN 13: 9781444450798

Verlag: ValdeBooks, 2026

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The Roman Question is Edmond About’s sharp, forceful examination of the Papal States and the political power of the pope in nineteenth-century Europe. Written during the struggle over Italian unification, the book asks whether the pope can rightly remain a temporal ruler, governing territory, subjects, armies, finances, courts, education, and public life as a king. About studies the structure of papal government, from nobles and middle classes to plebeians, foreigners, priests, soldiers, and ministers, with particular attention to Pius IX and Cardinal Antonelli. His argument is openly critical, energetic, and polemical, exposing what he sees as absolutism, clerical misrule, foreign occupation, weak administration, financial disorder, and the contradiction between spiritual authority and political sovereignty. More than a historical pamphlet, the work captures one of the central controversies of modern Europe: the collision between church power, national independence, liberal reform, and the making of Italy. For readers interested in Vatican history, Italian unification, political religion, and nineteenth-century European debate, The Roman Question offers a vivid contemporary attack on the temporal power of the papacy.

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