Abstract

SANTIAGO DEL SOLAR, Felipe. Buildingtheenemy. The anti-Masonicwriting in eighteenth-centurySpain. REHMLAC [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.2, pp.116-132. ISSN 1659-4223.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rehmlac.v9i2.31607.

Thespecter of FreemasonryhauntedtheSpanishEmpiresincethe mid-18thcentury. Althoughthiskind of sociabilitywasnotefficientlyimplementeduntilNapoleon’sinvasion, anti-masonicpublicationsmadeanearlyappearance in theIberianPeninsula and fromthereintoitscolonies. Afterwards, withthearrival of therevolution, thespecter of Freemasonrywasused as anexplanationforthepoliticalchange and as one of the axis of reactionarydiscoursesagainstliberalism. Thus, ourobjectiveistoanalyzethecirculation of anti-masonicwritings in theEuropean era of theEnlightment, specificallythehispanicproduction and itsmutationduringtherevolutionaryperiod. In orderto do so wehavestudiedtheworks of authorssuch as José Torrubia and Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, as well as thevastpressproductionbelongingtotheperiodbetween 1810 and 1830 onbothsides of theAtlantic.

Keywords : Anti-Freemasonry; PublicSphere; Civil Society; WrittenProduction; Press.

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