El reclutamiento de voluntarios españoles en defensa de Pío IX (1850)

Authors

Sergio Cañas Díez Universidad de La Rioja-Universidad de Zaragoza

Keywords:

Military Volunteering, Liberal Spain, Church-State Relations, Church History, Italian Unification

Abstract

The recruitment of Spanish volunteers in defense of Pius IX (1850)

The role of the Army and the Church are important keys to understanding the construction of the Spanish liberal state in the nineteenth century. That is why we propose to unite both thematic coordinates in a concrete fact, the project of Spanish legion for the defense of the Papal States of 1850, and to analyze the existing relations between politics, diplomacy, the Church, the Army and the Spanish society against a common cause: the defense of Pius IX.

Author Biography

Sergio Cañas Díez, Universidad de La Rioja-Universidad de Zaragoza

Sergio Cañas Díez is a PhD in Contemporary History at the University of La Rioja. His research focuses on State-Church relations in the contemporary age and on the history of the Church in Spain. He has worked in postdoctoral research projects funded by the Instituto de Estudios Riojanos (2016-2017) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of La Rioja, developing his activity at the University of Zaragoza. Among his most recent publications: Crisis del Antiguo Régimen y liberalismo en Calahorra(La Rioja), 1788-1840 (2016); Militares españoles en la Unificación de Italia: los diarios de operaciones como fuentes historiográficas (2015).