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Names: Armenteros, Carolina editor http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008188345 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2008188345 | Ramón Solans, Francisco Javier, 1983– editor http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014144396 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2014144396
Title: Inventing the modern papacy / edited by Carolina Armenteros, Francisco Javier Ramón Solans.
Description: Leiden : Brill, [2026]– | Series: Brill’s series in church history and religious culture, ISSN 1572-4107 ; volume 85 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: vol. 1. The birth of political ultramontanism (1789–1914)
Identifiers: LCCN 2025024537 (print) | LCCN 2025024536 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004734913 hardback | ISBN 9789004734920 ebook | ISBN 9789004734920qebook | ISBN 9789004734913qhardback
Subjects: LCSH: Papacy—History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097531 | Ultramontanism—History | Popes—Temporal power—History
Classification: LCC BX955.3 .I58 2026 (ebook) | LCC BX955.3 (print) | DDC 282.092/2 23/eng/20250—dc25
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ISSN 1572-4107
ISBN 978-90-04-73491-3 (hardback)
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DOI 10.1163/9789004734920
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