Robert Evans and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199249978
- eISBN:
- 9780191697852
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199249978.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The chapters in this book arose out of lectures given in Oxford to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. They comprise summaries of the existing site of knowledge, as ...
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The chapters in this book arose out of lectures given in Oxford to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. They comprise summaries of the existing site of knowledge, as well as new insights and unfamiliar information. The book also seeks to place the revolutionary events in their wider context: apart from chapters covering the main centres of disturbance in France, Germany, Italy, and the Habsburg lands, there are discussions of the situation in Britain and Russia, which were affected but not convulsed by the disorders elsewhere; of reactions in the United States of America; and of the symbolism of 1848 for the later democratic, radical, and socialist movements. The year 1848 marked the first breakdown of traditional authority across much of the continent, and as such is of profound significance in the development of modern European politics as a whole.Less
The chapters in this book arose out of lectures given in Oxford to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. They comprise summaries of the existing site of knowledge, as well as new insights and unfamiliar information. The book also seeks to place the revolutionary events in their wider context: apart from chapters covering the main centres of disturbance in France, Germany, Italy, and the Habsburg lands, there are discussions of the situation in Britain and Russia, which were affected but not convulsed by the disorders elsewhere; of reactions in the United States of America; and of the symbolism of 1848 for the later democratic, radical, and socialist movements. The year 1848 marked the first breakdown of traditional authority across much of the continent, and as such is of profound significance in the development of modern European politics as a whole.
R. J. W. Evans
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199541621
- eISBN:
- 9780191701252
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199541621.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter presents an essay on the domestic political and cultural presuppositions of Austria's governmental experiment following the revolutionary events of 1848–49. It argues that this ...
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This chapter presents an essay on the domestic political and cultural presuppositions of Austria's governmental experiment following the revolutionary events of 1848–49. It argues that this absolutism suffered not only from alienating too many ancestral supporters of the dynasty, but also from mixing ideologies. The focus on the maintenance of established Austrian priorities was inconsistent with the new goals of a German national kind given that the experiment was heavily influenced from other parts of Germany.Less
This chapter presents an essay on the domestic political and cultural presuppositions of Austria's governmental experiment following the revolutionary events of 1848–49. It argues that this absolutism suffered not only from alienating too many ancestral supporters of the dynasty, but also from mixing ideologies. The focus on the maintenance of established Austrian priorities was inconsistent with the new goals of a German national kind given that the experiment was heavily influenced from other parts of Germany.
Andrew Greeley and Paul Wink
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520238176
- eISBN:
- 9780520938779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520238176.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Revolutionary events and the collapse of institutional structures always leave chaos, confusion, and conflict in their wake. In the revolutionary years after the council, more changed than just the ...
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Revolutionary events and the collapse of institutional structures always leave chaos, confusion, and conflict in their wake. In the revolutionary years after the council, more changed than just the rules about sex. A large majority of laity and lower clergy participated and celebrated these changes. Neither historical nor theological nor personal depth was available in the immediate post-revolutionary era. The result was what theologian Robert Barron calls “beige Catholicism,” the colorless, odorless, tasteless, unimaginative, unpoetic variety of Catholicism in which he was raised. The need for order and certainty was still felt at the lower levels of the church leadership. The new authoritarians made the old monsignors look permissive. Although priests no longer controlled the lives of the laity, priests and parish staff members did still controlled access to the sacraments. In the post-revolutionary years after 1970, when the old rules were collapsing, a new set of extra canonical rules came into existence that protected clerical power and abused the rights of the laity. Paradoxically, the new freedom also meant new and more harsh rules. The rule making power of the local clergy proved remarkably durable.Less
Revolutionary events and the collapse of institutional structures always leave chaos, confusion, and conflict in their wake. In the revolutionary years after the council, more changed than just the rules about sex. A large majority of laity and lower clergy participated and celebrated these changes. Neither historical nor theological nor personal depth was available in the immediate post-revolutionary era. The result was what theologian Robert Barron calls “beige Catholicism,” the colorless, odorless, tasteless, unimaginative, unpoetic variety of Catholicism in which he was raised. The need for order and certainty was still felt at the lower levels of the church leadership. The new authoritarians made the old monsignors look permissive. Although priests no longer controlled the lives of the laity, priests and parish staff members did still controlled access to the sacraments. In the post-revolutionary years after 1970, when the old rules were collapsing, a new set of extra canonical rules came into existence that protected clerical power and abused the rights of the laity. Paradoxically, the new freedom also meant new and more harsh rules. The rule making power of the local clergy proved remarkably durable.
