The Origins of Freemasonry Facts and Fictions Margaret C. Jacob "A
classic in the field."--"American Historical Review" "Highly
recommended."--"Choice" "When inviting us to go on a journey to the
"Origins of Freemasonry," Margaret C. Jacob does not take us
towards the mysterious deserts of the East or the dark chapels of
the Knights Templar. But, once again, she demonstrates that real
history is often much more fascinating than the most extravagant
fictions."--Roger Dachez, President, Masonic Institute of France
Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the
Knights Templar? Is the image of the eye in a triangle on the back
of the dollar bill one of its cryptic signs? Is there a conspiracy
that stretches through centuries and generations to align this
shadow organization and its secret rituals to world governments and
religions? Myths persist and abound about the freemasons, Margaret
C. Jacob notes. But what are their origins? How has an early modern
organization of bricklayers and stonemasons aroused so much public
interest? In "The Origins of Freemasonry," Jacob throws back the
veil from a secret society that turns out not to have been very
secret at all. What factors contributed to the extraordinarily
rapid spread of freemasonry over the course of the eighteenth
century, and why were so many of the era's most influential figures
drawn to it? Using material from the archives of leading masonic
libraries in Europe, Jacob examines masonic almanacs and pocket
diaries to get closer to what living as a freemason might have
meant on a daily basis. She explores the persistent connections
between masons and nascent democratic movements, as each lodge set
up a polity where an individual's standing was meant to be based on
merit, rather than on birth or wealth, and she demonstrates, beyond
any doubt, how active a role women played in the masonic movement.
Margaret C. Jacob is Distinguished Professor of History at the
University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of many
books, including "Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of
Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe," also available from the
University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as "The Enlightenment: A
Brief History with Selected Texts" and "Scientific Culture and the
Making of the Industrial West." 2005 176 pages 6 x 9 16 illus. ISBN
978-0-8122-3901-0 Cloth $39.95s 26.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-1988-3 Paper
$21.95s 14.50 World Rights History Short copy: Myths persist and
abound about the freemasons, but what are their origins? Margaret
C. Jacob throws back the veil from a secret society that turns out
not to have been very secret at all, revealing the truth about an
organization that fascinated the eighteenth-century public in much
the same way it fascinates us today.
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