Belgium and the Holy See from Gregory XVI to Pius IX (1831-1859)

• Superior document: KADOC-Studies
• Author: Viaene, Vincent
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: KADOC-studies.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (648 p.)

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 9 -- PART I -- RELIGION, SOCIETY AND POLITICS IN BELGIUM DURING THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM 24 -- Chapter I -- The Belgian Constitution and Belgian Politics: Rules and Loopholes 25 -- Chapter II -- Political Catholicism: a Genealogy 37 -- 1. Intransigent Ultramontanism: Alpha and Omega of Political Catholicism 40 -- Dramatis Personae 40 -- Diagnosis and Cure 46 -- (R)evolution 54 -- Crisis 59 -- 2. Intransigent Liberal-Catholicism: God and Liberty 64 -- The Ideas of L'Avenir 64 -- Results 71 -- 3. Transigent Liberal-Catholicism: Liberty and Authority 77 -- Sources and Centres 77 -- Continuity and Discontinuity 83 -- Politics, Charity and Education 86 -- Modern Liberties and the Constitution 96 -- 4. Transigent Ultramontanism: Authority and Liberty 100 -- Exponents 100 -- Inequality and Authority 102 -- Agenda 105 -- Decline 109 -- Chapter III -- Liberalism 113 -- 1. The centre-gauche 113 -- 2. Doctrinaires and Radicals 123 -- Chapter IV -- Leopold I, Belgian Foreign Policy and the Unionist Tradition in Belgian Politics 137 -- Chapter V -- Catholic Revival versus Religious Reform: the Socio-Cultural Background of Partisan Conflict 157 -- 1. Class and Partisanship: a Red Herring 157 -- 2. The Catholic Revival 168 -- Structures 171 -- Mentalities 185 -- 3. Liberalism and Religious Reform 203 -- PART II -- BELGIUM AND ROME - ROME AND BELGIUM 218 -- Chapter VI -- Belgian Projections and Roman Realities from Gregory XVI to Pius IX 219 -- 1. Belgian Presences in Rome 219 -- 2.Daguerreotypes and Souvenirs 236 -- All Roads 236 -- The City of Monuments 243 -- The City of Men 264 -- 3. Roman Questions and Curial Stammerings 279 -- 4. Pio Nono 303 -- Chapter VII -- Concert and Revival: Roman Policies and Belgian Challenges from the Eve of Independence to the Decline of Unionism (1829-1839) 315 -- 1. Francesco Capaccini's Lehrjahre and the Making of Belgium 316 -- 2. Containment or Appeasement? Gregory XVI and Liberal-Catholicism 332 -- 3. The Belgian Litmus Test 361 -- Chapter VIII -- The Pitfalls of Transigence: the Holy See, Neo-Unionism and the Decline of the Concert (1839-1846) 379 -- 1. Raffaele Fornari on the Frontier of Vatican Diplomacy 379 -- 2. Rethinking Transigence 390 -- Chapter IX -- Rome Head of the Revival: the Holy See and the Internal Problems of the Belgian Church under Gregory XVI (1831-1846) 411 -- 1. Bishops and Monks, Bishops and Canons, Bishops and Vicars: Regular Exemption and "Episcopal Despotism" 411 -- 2. Romantic Spirits and Classical Minds: the "Louvain Affair" 419 -- 3. Jesuits and Professors 437 -- Chapter X -- "Politica Evangelica" (1846-1848) 453 -- 1. Unfinished Business: the Hermeneutics of Gregory's Legacy 453 -- 2. Pio Nono, the Court and Political Catholicism from the Chimay Mission to 1848 461 -- 3. Pius IX and Belgian Liberalism, First Act: the Leclercq Affair 476 -- Chapter XI -- From Pio Nono to Pius IX (1848-1851) 489 -- 1. Revolution, Reaction, Restoration 489 -- 2. Dress-Rehearsal for Mobilisation: Catholic Opinion and the Pope after the Roman Revolution 505 -- 3. Sterckx Disenchanted 511 -- 4. Pius IX and Belgian Liberalism, Second Act: Schools and Succursalistes 519 -- Chapter XII -- Catholic Revival into Catholic Opinion (1851-1859) 535 -- 1. A World of Make-Belief 535 -- 2. Roman Initiative and Socio-Cultural Polarisation 553 -- 3. Religion as Politics and the String of the Papal States 578 -- CONCLUSION 599 -- ABBREVIATIONS 605 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 607 -- INDEX 633.