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Glauco Schettini

@gschettini.bsky.social

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Historian. Marie Curie Postdoc at Warwick. Formerly Haverford and Yale. Author of THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM: A GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1780-1849 (OUP, 2026). glaucoschettini.com

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thanks––I hope you enjoy it!

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Many thanks—I’d be delighted if you were able to review it! Do let me know if you find a suitable venue, and I’ll be very happy to help make sure a review copy reaches you.

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ireland appears in a chapter on Catholicism and nationhood. One argument is that Catholic nationalisms often saw themselves as part of a wider movement for the emancipation of Catholic peoples—Ireland, Poland, Belgium, Italy, etc.—which naturally places Ireland in a broader European story.

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes—there are excellent national studies, and I’m very grateful for them, because they’re what made a transnational study like mine possible. What I try to add is a European frame that lets us see connections that are harder to spot when each national case is treated on its own.

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you—I hope it lives up to the expectations!

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you—I hope you enjoy it!

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, I look at the very beginning of that process and try to place it in its broader European context. In the conclusion, I also briefly consider what I see as some of its longer-term consequences.

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you—hope you enjoy it!

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And there’s a small but telling lexical clue: even the word “Catholicism” only became widely used in its current sense from the late eighteenth century onward. That linguistic shift is one part of the larger transformation the book tries to explain.

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ha! Fair point. The book argues that something new emerged from the late eighteenth century, as the early-modern church–state compact began to break down and Catholics recast their religion as a distinct political and social project—“Catholicism.” So 1377 and 1545 may belong on another list…

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you!

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Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m delighted to share my first book, THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM, forthcoming from Oxford University Press on December 1, 2026. Catholicism did not simply survive the Age of Revolutions: it was remade by it. glaucoschettini.com/book/

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