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Author : Douglas Knoop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The London Mason in the Seventeenth Century written by Douglas Knoop and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Stevenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521396547
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (965 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Freemasonry written by David Stevenson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a new edition of David Stevenson's classic account of the origins of Freemasonry, a brotherhood of men bound together by secret initiatives, rituals and modes of identification with ideals of fraternity, equality, toleration and reason. Beginning in Britain, Freemasonry swept across Europe in the mid-eighteenth century in astonishing fashion--yet its origins are still hotly debated today. The prevailing assumption has been that it emerged in England around 1700, but David Stevenson demonstrates that the real origins of modern Freemasonry lie in Scotland around 1600, when the system of lodges was created by stonemasons with rituals and secrets blending medieval mythology with Renaissance and seventeenth-century history. This fascinating work of historical detection will be essential reading for anyone interested in Renaissance and seventeenth-century history, for freemasons themselves, and for those readers captivated by the secret societies at the heart of the bestselling The Da Vinci Code. David Stevenson is Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of St. Andrews. His many previous publications include The Scottish Revolution, 1637-1644; Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Scotland, 1644-1651; and The First Freemasons; Scotland, Early Lodges and their Members. His most recent book is the The Hunt for Rob Roy (2004). Previous edition Hb (1988) 0-521-35326-2 Previous edition Pb (1990) 0-521-39654-9
Author : Jonathan Barth
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150175579X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Currency of Empire written by Jonathan Barth and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence. Thanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
Author : Melody Mobus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000896684
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Wren’s Burford Masons written by Melody Mobus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The Burford Masons were involved in the construction of such outstanding buildings as St Paul's Cathedral, City churches, and Blenheim Palace, among many others. Whilst credit for many of these buildings generally rests with named architects, Sir Christopher Wren in particular, this book shows how reliant these designers were on their master craftsmen, sometimes involving them in the design process as their ideas evolved. The book further shows how the Burford Masons responded to the challenge of late payments, often of many years, becoming financiers in the process. It reveals how, as risk-taking businessmen, they effectively underpinned both public and private development financially, and how extraordinary success transformed their lives. The reader will learn about the vital part played in the early modern period by master craftsmen of the calibre of the Burford Masons, despite the emergence of the architect as lead designer, whose fame has hitherto overshadowed them. As a result, this book will be a compelling read for anyone interested in architectural, construction or social history.
Author : Alfred Plummer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113658398X
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The London Weaver's Company 1600 - 1970 written by Alfred Plummer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Worshipful Company of Weavers, the oldest of all the London Livery Companies, can trace its origins to a twelfth-century craft guild. Largely based upon original records never before studied in depth, this authorized history of the company covers the period from the end of the reign of Elizabeth I to modern times. Alfred Plummer presents a portrait of the London Hand-loom weavers in their historical setting, living strenuous lives in an industry which was once essential but has now disappeared. He describes many fascinating aspects of the Company's 'eventful history', from the numbers of apprentices, to their parents and places of origin, the attitude towards the admission of women and the enlistment by the Weaver's Company of the powerful pen of Daniel Defoe. In addition, the work examines the impact of such catastrophes as the Great Plague and the Fire of London. The author deals with the dogged struggle for survival of the famous Spitalfields silk weavers, and explores the part played by the Weavers and their associated London Livery companies in the 'plantation of Ulster' under James I nearly four centuries ago. This book was first published in 1972.
Author : David S. Katz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004246592
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth-Century England written by David S. Katz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the practical application of a religious idea: the belief in the continuing validity of the Old Testament, especially the Ten Commandments, which ordained the observance of the Sabbath on the seventh day, Saturday. The author traces the growth and development of the most radical of English Sabbath observers, those who revered the Jewish Sabbath in a Christian context. But this is not only a pre-history of the Seventh-Day Adventists. It is also the story of the remarkable persistence of a revolutionary religious belief powerful and convincing enough to survive the Restoration and continue into modern times. The Saturday-Sabbath gradually became institutionalized in a nonconformist sect in which the ideological foundation was sufficient to unite men who on political grounds should have been the most bitter of enemies, including Fifth Monarchists, millenarians, neutrals, and Royalists alike. That those men and their followers could amicably join forces after the Restoration is testimony to the power of religious ideas which might overshadow the political affiliations of the civil war.
Author : Catherine Armstrong
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754657002
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century written by Catherine Armstrong and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a range of seventeenth century literature, including travel narratives, promotional literature, plays, poetry and journals, this book examines the ways in which the geography and nature of the new colonies of North America were represented, both by the settlers themselves and commentators in Renaissance England. This is a valuable addition to literature of colonial history, transatlantic history, and the cultural world of early modern England.
Author : Dale B. J. Randall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199539529
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century England written by Dale B. J. Randall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work of scholarship gathers together over a thousand early-modern English references to the writings of the great Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, not only from Don Quixote but also from his ground-breaking Novelas ejemplares.
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526158647
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The birth of modern London written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period 1660–1720 saw the foundation of modern London. The city was transformed post-Fire from a tight warren of medieval timber-framed buildings into a vastly expanded, regularised landscape of brick houses laid out in squares and spacious streets. This work for the first time examines in detail the building boom and the speculative developers who created that landscape. It offers a wealth of new information on their working practices, the role of craftsmen and the design thinking which led to the creation of a new prototype for English housing. The book concentrates on the mass-produced houses of 'the middling sort' which saw the adoption of classicism on a large scale in this country for the first time. McKellar shows, however, that the 'new city' maintained a surprising degree of continuity with existing patterns of urban used and traditional architecture. The book presents the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth century as a distinct phase in London's architectural development and offers a radical reinterpretations of the adoption of Renaissance styles and ideas at the level of the everyday, challenging conventional interpretations of their use and reception in this country.
Author : James Campbell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0992875110
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Studies in Construction History: the proceedings of the Second Construction History Society Conference written by James Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of second conference of the Construction History Society, which took place on 20 and 21 March 2015 at Queens' College, Cambridge, featuring 28 peer-reviewed papers covering a wide variety of subjects on the theme of construction history.
Author : Peter Earle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520068261
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)
Download or read book The Making of the English Middle Class written by Peter Earle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.
Author : Bernard F. Scholz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004451455
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The European Emblem written by Bernard F. Scholz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten papers in this volume were all presented at the first International Conference "The European Emblem", held in Glasgow in August, 1987 under the auspices of the Society for Emblem Studies. The conference included papers discussing most of the major European languages in which emblem books flourished, and the papers selected for the presented volume represent something of the variety and scope of current scholarship in this field. Subjects dealt with include a protoemblematic Latin translation of the Tabula Cebetis, the Emblematum Liber by Andreas Alciat, the earliest reception of the 'Ars Emblematica' in Dutch, the career of Thomas Palmer, Daniel Cramers 80 Emblemata moralia nova, and the Emlimata of Polockij. The papers selected for this volume demonstrate the vigor and variety of work in this field, whilst also suggesting some of the directions and opportunities for further research.
Author : Robert Freke Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Four Old Lodges, Founders of Modern Freemasonry, and Their Descendants written by Robert Freke Gould and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Ars Quatuor Coronatorum written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roscoe Pound
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lectures on Masonic Jurisprudence written by Roscoe Pound and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oscar Patterson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761868615
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Interpreting Masonic Ritual written by Oscar Patterson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpreting Masonic Ritual endeavors to addresses the depth of the ritualistic experience through a discussion of what ritual means to man as well as what man means to ritual. Ritual teaches us about reality but we will not come to a full understanding of it if we disparage what others do and view their actions from a position of pseudo-intellectual or cultural superiority. Ritual is the core of Freemasonry and is that thing which sets it apart from so many organizations. It is the key to the Freemason’s “secrets” and the manner through which they transmit our “beautiful system of morality.” It is something to be treasured, maintained, taught, elevated, evaluated, and, above, reinforced through proper performance, decorum, and setting.
