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Ecclesiology, Idealism, and World Polity

The Concordats of the Apostolic See

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  • Jul 2024

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Authors:
  1. Mark R. Royce

    1. Political Science, Northern Virginia Community College, WEST SPRINGFIELD, USA

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  • Provides the only annotated list of all 157 concordats
  • Harmonizes canon, comparative, and international legal traditions
  • Provides six case chapters comprehending 114 separate treaties

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy (PSRPP)

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Keywords

  • Catholicism
  • Concordats
  • Vatican
  • Apostolic See
  • Pope
  • Papacy
  • Politics of religion
  • Catholic politics
  • Catholic canon law
  • Roman Catholic
  • Church
  • Canon
  • international theory
  • international relations
  • history of Catholocism
  • fascism
  • secularism
  • reformation
  • treaty

About this book

This book provides the only comprehensive analysis of concordats, the international treaties of the Apostolic See in Rome. Identifying the 167 treaties between the papacy and civil commonwealths from 1865 to 2022 at the intersection of canon, comparative, and international law, Royce indicates an overall relationship between the dominance or inferiority of Roman Catholic canon law within the contracting party and the respective ecclesiological or ideational norms of its concordat. Successive case chapters analyzing the concordats with fascist Europe, the German Länder, Latin American countries, France and Austria, the states of the Second Vatican Council, and Third World states illustrate that the norms of concordats with polities of long-standing, entrenched, continuous, or otherwise dominant Roman Catholic canon law concern the Church as an institution, whereas those with polities of new, precarious, inconstant, or otherwise inferior canon law status concern the Church as anadherent to values. This contractual law of the Apostolic See most closely aligns with the tenets of the English School of international theory. As a result, this book posits significant theoretical, legal, and empirical advances in existing knowledge of the international relations and law of the Catholic Church.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Political Science, Northern Virginia Community College, WEST SPRINGFIELD, USA

    Mark R. Royce

About the author

Mark R.Royce is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northern Virginia Community College. He is the author of The Political Theology of European Integration: Comparing the Influence of Religious Histories on European Policies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecclesiology, Idealism, and World Polity

  • Book Subtitle: The Concordats of the Apostolic See

  • Authors: Mark R. Royce

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57032-2Due: 25 July 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57035-3Due: 25 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57033-9Due: 25 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2731-6769

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-6777

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 189

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

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