John F. Pollard

Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy

Financing the Vatican, 1850 1950

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Produktbeschreibung

This the first scholarly study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521092111
• ISBN-10: 0521092116
• Artikelnr.: 25616830

Autorenporträt

John F. Pollard is a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-32: A Study in Conflict (1985).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The reign of Pius IX: Vatican finances before and after the fall of Rome (1850-1878)
3. The Pontificate of Leo XIII (1878-1903)
4. Vatican finances under the 'Peasant Pope', Pius X (1903-1914)
5. 'The great charitable lord'?: Vatican finances under Benedict XV (1914-1922)
6. 'Economical and prudent bourgeois'?: Pius XI, 1922-1929
7. The Wall Street crash and Vatican finances in the early 1930s
8. Vatican finances in an age of global consolidation, 1933-1939
9. Vatican finances in the reign of Pius XII: the Second World War and the early Cold War, 1939-1950
10. Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.