Priests, Prelates and People joe guse Drawing on a vast range

Drawing on a vast range of archival material - much of which had never previously been studied by historians - it sets architecture in a wide social and cultural context

encouraging new thinking and reflection on familiar and emergent themes to stimulate further debate and scholarship

Through three outstanding editions

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Priests, Prelates and People joe guse Drawing on a vast rangeNicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett offer the first one volume historical overview of European Catholicism from the 18th century to 2002. The authors record the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution and show how the formation of nation states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. They portray the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold