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.