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Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, 2011
From the eighteenth century onwards the fraternity of freemasons in England has aimed to spiritually and morally refine its members and modify their behaviour patterns. In other words, it has striven to create a performative habitus that is consolidated beyond the routine of the lodge to achieve practical application in everyday life.
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From the eighteenth century onwards the fraternity of freemasons in England has aimed to spiritually and morally refine its members and modify their behaviour patterns. In other words, it has striven to create a performative habitus that is consolidated beyond the routine of the lodge to achieve practical application in everyday life.
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Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, 2011
This article deals with the development of historical enquiry into freemasonry since its origins to the current academic treatment. This development is divided into two general phases when freemasons researched their history themselves and when it during the Twentieth century became an academic subject.
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This article deals with the development of historical enquiry into freemasonry since its origins to the current academic treatment. This development is divided into two general phases when freemasons researched their history themselves and when it during the Twentieth century became an academic subject.
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2014
Many texts which appeared in France in the 1740s, either to present, defend or condemn Freemasonry, considered it to be some sort of Order of chivalry. Given the rapid development of the chivalric theme running through French Freemasonry after the 1730s it is difficult to ascribe its origins to anything other than the personal innovation of Ramsay. The
Pierre Mollier, Pierre Mollier
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Many texts which appeared in France in the 1740s, either to present, defend or condemn Freemasonry, considered it to be some sort of Order of chivalry. Given the rapid development of the chivalric theme running through French Freemasonry after the 1730s it is difficult to ascribe its origins to anything other than the personal innovation of Ramsay. The
Pierre Mollier, Pierre Mollier
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2014
Architecture, in its historical sense, especially Classical architecture, is central to Freemasonry: Modernist architecture, however, having no coherent language or vocabulary, and wholly divorced from the ancient techniques of working with stone, has no connection whatseoever with the Craft. This chapter concentrates on the subtle aspects that suggest
Curl, James Stevens, James Stevens Curl
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Architecture, in its historical sense, especially Classical architecture, is central to Freemasonry: Modernist architecture, however, having no coherent language or vocabulary, and wholly divorced from the ancient techniques of working with stone, has no connection whatseoever with the Craft. This chapter concentrates on the subtle aspects that suggest
Curl, James Stevens, James Stevens Curl
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Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, 2015
Examining British imperial freemasonry in light of the French, Dutch, and Danish colonial empires, this article argues that freemasonry and European imperialism developed a complex symbiosis during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It traces brotherhood’s spread through these empires, the mechanisms of its expansion abroad, and its role in ...
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Examining British imperial freemasonry in light of the French, Dutch, and Danish colonial empires, this article argues that freemasonry and European imperialism developed a complex symbiosis during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It traces brotherhood’s spread through these empires, the mechanisms of its expansion abroad, and its role in ...
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Russian Studies in History, 1996
Since time immemorial, Freemasonry has been associated with something mysterious and powerful. Colorful pictures of ritual meetings come to mind, as portrayed by Sir Walter Scott, Georges Sand, Alexandre Dumas, Aleksei Pisemsky, and Leo Tolstoy—pictures of adepts of the order in dark rooms decorated with symbols—signs of the zodiac, skulls, shinbones ...
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Since time immemorial, Freemasonry has been associated with something mysterious and powerful. Colorful pictures of ritual meetings come to mind, as portrayed by Sir Walter Scott, Georges Sand, Alexandre Dumas, Aleksei Pisemsky, and Leo Tolstoy—pictures of adepts of the order in dark rooms decorated with symbols—signs of the zodiac, skulls, shinbones ...
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2014
Anderson's Constitutions (1723) can be considered as the founding charter of modern non-operative Freemasonry. Meanwhile, between the building sites for the cathedrals and the philosophy of Enlightenment, between the Regius Manuscript and Anderson's Constitutions , Europe had been the theatre of bloody religious wars. It is shown that the constitutions
François Rognon, François Rognon
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Anderson's Constitutions (1723) can be considered as the founding charter of modern non-operative Freemasonry. Meanwhile, between the building sites for the cathedrals and the philosophy of Enlightenment, between the Regius Manuscript and Anderson's Constitutions , Europe had been the theatre of bloody religious wars. It is shown that the constitutions
François Rognon, François Rognon
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