The turn of time which started with the transition of the Italian political system towards polarized democracy after the end of the Cold War has seen a relevant increase of interest from historians in the relations between Catholic political culture, conservatism and right-wing trends in the Republican era. Many books and essays brought to light, in the last decades, the pivotal historical question of the ambivalence between the inescapable “center”, intermediate position of Christian-Democratic party in the so-called “fi rst Republic” and the right-wing, anti-communist sentiment prevailing in its constituency. Such an interest, though, has never resulted in systematic historiographic works on the history of Catholic conservatism in Italy.
La storiografia sui rapporti tra mondo cattolico, moderatismo politico e destre in Italia dopo il 1989
Capozzi, Eugenio
2023-01-01
Abstract
The turn of time which started with the transition of the Italian political system towards polarized democracy after the end of the Cold War has seen a relevant increase of interest from historians in the relations between Catholic political culture, conservatism and right-wing trends in the Republican era. Many books and essays brought to light, in the last decades, the pivotal historical question of the ambivalence between the inescapable “center”, intermediate position of Christian-Democratic party in the so-called “fi rst Republic” and the right-wing, anti-communist sentiment prevailing in its constituency. Such an interest, though, has never resulted in systematic historiographic works on the history of Catholic conservatism in Italy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
