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Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846-1852.

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James P. Flint. Great Britain and the Holy See: The Diplomatic Relations Question, 1846-1852. Washington: Catholic University of America Press; dist. by Hopkins, Fredericksburg, Pa. 2003. Pp. xvii, 302. $39.95. ISBN 0-8132-1327-4.

Saho Matsumoto-Best. Britain and the Papacy in the Age of Revolution, 1846-1851. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series Volume: 34.) Rochester, N. Y.: Royal Historical Society; dist. by Boydell Press, Rochester, N. Y. 2003. Pp. xi, 196. $75.00. ISBN 0-86193-265-X.

Historians have written much about the relationship between Roman Catholicism and the broader early Victorian culture over the last quarter century or so. Sheridan Gilley, Mary Heimann, Derek Holmes, G. I. T. Machin, Edward Norman, and John Wolffe, to name only a few, have considered the internal history of that church as well as its interactions with both the reforming governments of Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell and its anti-Catholic enemies. Roman Catholicism as a problem in diplomacy in this era, however, has not attracted the same amount of interest. Although a few articles in learned journals complement Ottavio Barie's two-volume L 'Inghilterra e il problema italiano, 1846-1849 (1954-1965), most of the attention of both anglophone and Italian scholars has been focused on the decades of the 1850s and 1860s. Hence a study of the 1840s is long overdue. It is remarkable that two studies should...

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