Living the Enlightenment Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe

by Jacob, Margaret C.

• ISBN13: 9780195069921
• ISBN10: 0195069927
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-12-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction The European Enlightenment: The Birth of Modern Civil Society	p. 3
The Public Becomes the Private: The English Revolution and the Origins of European Freemasonry	p. 23
Temples of Virtue, Palaces of Splendor: British Masonic Visions	p. 52
Cultural Encounters: Freemasonry on the Continent	p. 73
Creating Constitutional Societies	p. 96
Freemasonry, Women, and the Paradox of the Enlightenment	p. 120
Speaking the Language of Enlightenment	p. 143
Living the Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan Reformers and Amsterdam Brothers	p. 162
Dissension and Reform in the New """"Civil Society"""": The Strasbourg Lodges of the Late Eighteenth Century	p. 179
Le Régime Ancien et Maçonnique: The Paris Grand Lodge and the Reform of National Government	p. 203
Conclusion: The Enlightenment Redefined	p. 215
Notes	p. 225
Index	p. 295
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