History A-Level
Anticlericalism and state–Church conflict
What Anticlericalism and state–Church conflict means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Cavour's anticlericalism reduced Church privileges and property, provoking papal conflict but strengthening secular liberal control.
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- Paper 2, Option 2D.1: The unification of Italy, c1830–70 - 2 The rise of Piedmont, 1849–56 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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