„Wider die Freymaurer“. Die Freimaurerei im Blickfeld von Kirche, Inquisition und weltlicher Gewalt im Zeitalter der Aufklärung

Abstract

The following seminar-paper is about the relationship between a new form of community which occurred in the period of enlightenment and between important areas of society. As a matter of particular interest, the paper examines the critical relation of freemasonry and the Catholic Church and especially the national institutions of the Inquisition, which persecuted the members of the secret society in Spain, Portugal and in Italian territories.