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Schism - The Battle That Forged Freemasonry (Hardcover)
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Schism - The Battle That Forged Freemasonry (Hardcover)
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This book examines the creation of the Antients Grand Lodge and
traces the influence of Ireland and the London Irish, and most
especially that of Laurence Dermott, the Antients' Grand Secretary,
in the development of freemasonry in the second half of the
eighteenth century. The book demonstrates the relative
accessibility of the Antients and contrasts this with the
exclusivity of the 'Moderns' -- the original Grand Lodge of
England. The Antients instigated what became a six decades long
rivalry with the Moderns and pioneered fundamental changes to the
social composition of freemasonry, extending formal sociability to
the lower middling and working classes and creating one of the
first modern friendly societies. Schism does not stand solely as an
academic work but introduces the subject to a wider Masonic and
non-Masonic audience and, most particularly, supplements dated
historical works. The book contributes to the history of London and
the London Irish in the long eighteenth century and examines the
social and trade networks of the urban lower middling and working
class, subjects that remains substantially unexplored. It also
offers a prism through which Britain's calamitous relationship with
Ireland can be examined.
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