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...Marsha Keith Schuchard Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Péter Róbert , general ed., and Snoek Jan A. M. Révauger Cécile , eds. British Freemasonry, 1717–1813 ( London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group , 2016 ), 5 vols. $875 hardcover. $612 eBook ...

...Ric Berman Formed in London in 1751, the Antients Grand Lodge of Freemasons was created as a rival to the pro-establishment Grand Lodge of England, itself created in 1717. The Antients was shaped by the Irish diaspora in London, although disaffection within London Freemasonry was then so great...

... literary works of the time, and was particularly associated with Freemasonry. Using Zoroastro/Zoroaster as a starting point, this article reveals the presence Masonic imagery and ideology in Orlando , and suggests that Handel and his librettist were tailoring their operas to the wealthy Masonic-friendly...

... published study of the factions and rivalries within British Freemasonry that influenced and were reflected in anglophone literature from the 1680s to the 1750s. Schuchard has excavated a plenitude of printed and manuscript works in which she finds Masonic refer- ences of Whig and Tory, Hanoverian...

... is there no mention of the clubs’ whimsically concocted genealogies of origins in the ancient Scottish nation? For example, the Whin Bush club, which Andrews mentions in examining Ramsay’s poetry, reveled in this sort of fantasy. Whereas Freemasonry supplied a model for aes- theticizing community and had...

...; and Nemeitz, Séjour de Paris , 119. 20. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, L'Europe des francs-maçons, XVIIIe–XXIe siècles (Paris: Belin, 2002), 21, and Kenneth Loiselle, Brotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France (Ithaca: Cornell Univ., 2014), 95. For a Dutch example, see...

... Dominique Vivant Denon, whose early experiences as a diplomat led him to cross paths with the comte de Cagliostro, the alchemist, magical healer, and charlatan generally credited as the originator of Egyptian Freemasonry. Denon’s adventures in Egypt as artis- tic director of Napoleon’s expedition...

... Viaggi. It was somewhat later that Seriman frequented Calogerà and his milieu.Their debates, their topics of interest (notably, the reform of education), and their positions (notably, an anti-Jesuit stance and an open-mindedness toward freemasonry) are all reflected...

... + 263. 2 ills. $75 Sommers, Susan Mitchell. Thomas Dunckerley and English Freemasonry (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012). Pp. xii + 220. $99 Sowerby, Scott. Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 2013). Pp. 404. $49.95 Spary, E. C. Eating...

... of a different sort are the subject of Ric Berman’s piece, which documents the creation and rise of the Antients Grand Lodge, an outpost of Irish Freemasonry in the capital. Dating from 1751, the lodge was a crucial site of Irish expatriate interaction between the lower and mid- dling classes...

.... The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry: The Grand Architects: Political Change and the Scientific Enlightenment, 1717  –  1740 (Brighton: Sussex Academic, 2012). Pp. viii + 344. 23 ills. $39.95 Bernstein, R. B. The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (2009; New York: Oxford Univ., 2011). Pp. xviii...

... life, such as the Royal Exchange (which had an “Irish walk and in the premises of the booksellers; it is also likely that all these venues provided opportunities for social contact, as did Freemasonry, for a few. Sir James Tobin and Richard Fitzgerald seem to have been the only Catholics among...

...). But Addison's influence helps us not at all with Hogarth's subversive streak, which has led him to be called an Enlightenment man, with Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, as well as Locke, with Freemasonry as well as—following his father—dissent. 2 In the following reconsideration, we shall argue that this radical...

.... Other sexually segregated institutions, most obviously monasteries, deserve further research. Kenneth Loiselle, in Brotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France (Ithaca: Cornell Univ., 2014), has argued, unpersuasively, that French Masons founded sister lodges to deflect...

... as a public sphere has been firmly established by the work of Margaret Jacob: Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (N.Y.: Oxford Univ., 1991); “The Enlightenment Redefined: The Formation of Modern Civil Society,” Social...

... Irish set- tlers could meet and relax. It may be that certain Masonic lodges attracted disproportionate numbers of those with Irish backgrounds, a development helped by the prominence in mid eighteenth-century London Freemasonry of an Irishman, Laurence Dermott. But, as yet, details...