Money and the rise of the modern papacy : financing the Vatican, 1850-1950 / John F. Pollard.
Money and the rise of the modern papacy : financing the Vatican, 1850-1950 / John F. Pollard.
Money and the rise of the modern papacy : financing the Vatican, 1850-1950 / John F. Pollard.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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2005.
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N262.136/6
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English
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xx, 265 p. : ill., maps.
Contents
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-...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2005.
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"This is a pioneering study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr. Pollard, a leading historian of the modern papacy, shows how, until 1929, the papacy was largely funded by 'Peter's Pence' collected from the faithful, and from the residue the Vatican made its first capitalistic investments, especially in the ill-f...
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Money and the rise of the modern papacy : financing the Vatican, 1850-1950 / John F. Pollard.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N262.136/6
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74VKdZJLp6qA
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0521812046
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262.136
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991019819819702626
