2003
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Nicholas 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 War, and the massive expansion of the developing world, with its problems of population growth and under-development. This is not the story of the Church in all its glory, but one of adaptation and change, of decline and resilience as the Church has responded to social, political, and cultural changes over the last 250 years.
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Author
Nicholas Atkin
Author · 2 books
A specialist in French history, Nicholas James Atkin was professor of modern European history at the University of Reading. He read History at Westfield College from 1979 until 1982, and he earned his Ph.D. at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1988.
