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Bobič, Pavlina - Introduction

Keywords:

Austria-Hungary | Catholic Church | Franz Ferdinand | ideological legitimation | Slovenian

Abstract:

This chapter examines the Catholic Church's interpretation of the causes of the war, an interpretation which endowed the war with a moral dimension and conferred on it adequate ideological legitimation. It occupies with the rhetoric employed by the Church in the context of Franz Ferdinand's assassination and the declaration of the state of siege that succeeded it. The c…