Living the enlightenment : freemasonry and politics in eighteenth-century Europe / Margaret C. Jacob.
This historical study of Enlightenment freemasonry traces the origins and development of the order, from the roots of its political philosophy in 17th-century England to the French Revolution.
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Oxford University Press,
1991.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: The European Enlightenment: The Birth of Modern Civil Society; 1. The Public Becomes the Private: The English Revolution and the Origins of European Freemasonry; 2. Temples of Virtue, Palaces of Splendor: British Masonic Visions; 3. Cultural Encounters: Freemasonry on the Continent; 4. Creating Constitutional Societies; 5. Freemasonry, Women, and the Paradox of the Enlightenment; 6. Speaking the Language of Enlightenment; 7. Living the Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan Reformers and Amsterdam Brothers.