4th European Conference on Masonic Studies (ECMS)

The focus of the Manchester conference addresses the crucial period of transition throughout Europe resulting from the French Revolution, the expansion and fall of the Napoleonic empire, war inflation and the beginnings of industrialisation. It has been termed the 'sattelzeit', the saddle-period (Reinhart Koselleck). In many places it witnessed the change from an 'ancien régime' to that of the nation-state, from a society of 'estates' to a class structure, and to a fresh political consciousness. It saw a re-definition of the relation of church and state, with often a certain loss of control of public life hitherto exercised by the Church.
Hence cultural life experienced fundamental changes.

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