An in-depth study, based on the study of the main French and Italian archival resources, of the intense cultural conflict created by Napoleon's religious policy in Italy. The author considers Napoleon's attempts to impose a new organisation of the church in the country, which is fact lead to Napoleon's excommunication and the Pope's arrest and exile from Rome. And it was a union in resistance between the Church and people which prevented Italy from being totally assimilated into the French empire.
Michael Broers is Reader in Modern History at the University of Aberdeen.
The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy. The war against God, 1801-1814
Author(s) : BROERS Michael
- Year of publication :
- 2002
- Place and publisher :
- London and New York: Routledge
- Number of pages :
- 238