Brotherly love : freemasonry and male friendship in Enlightenment France / Kenneth Loiselle.

Friendship, an acquired relationship primarily based on choice rather than birth, lay at the heart of Enlightenment preoccupations with sociability and the formation of the private sphere. In Brotherly Love, Kenneth Loiselle argues that Freemasonry is an ideal arena in which to explore the changing...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Loiselle, Kenneth, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer.
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Table of Contents:
  • The masonic utopia of friendship
  • Friendship in ritual
  • Confronting the specter of sodomy
  • "New but true friends" : the friendship network of Philippe-Valentin Bertin du Rocheret
  • Friendship in the age of sensibility
  • Friendship under fire : freemasonry in the French Revolution.