Archiv für August 2013

Snoek, Jan A.M., Initiating Women in Freemasonry: The Adoption Rite (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012), xviii + 518 pp., £148.30, Hbk, ISBN 978-90-04-21079-0.

Quelle: https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/17800

Taillon, Paul M., Good, Reliable White Men – Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917 (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, The Working Class in American History series, 2009), pages xi + 266, $25US, Pbk. ISBN: 978-0-252-03485-5.

Quelle: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/14994

Alberto, Paulina L., Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011), xiv + 395 pp., $29.95 Pbk, ISBN 978-0-8078-7171-3.

Quelle: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/15117

Lause, Mark A., A Secret Society History of the Civil War (Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011), 209 pp., $35.00, Illustrated, Hbk, ISBN: 978-0-252-03655-2.

Quelle: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/15125

Berman, Ric, The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry: The Grand Architects – Political Change and the Scientific Enlightenment, 1714–1740 (Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2012), 320 pp., Hbk, £55.00, ISBN: 978-1-84519-479-6.

Quelle: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/17877

Révauger Cécile and Éric Saunier (eds), La Franc-maçonnerie dans les ports (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2012), 216 pp., €17.00, Pbk, ISSN 2110-2015, ISBN 978-2-86781-770-0. Contents are in English and French.

Quelle: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/15574

‘Aux Mânes d’un F[rère] qui fut Roi’: a Cantata by K.L. Hanssens On the Death of King Leopold I of the Belgians

When King Leopold I of the Belgians died on 10 December 1865, freemasons in Brussels were quick to organize an elaborate lodge of sorrow for their mason king (le Roi maçon). This lodge of sorrow included a masonic cantata, written for orchestra, choir and soloists by Karel Lodewijk Hanssens (1825–71), one of the city’s leading composers. This cantata, long thought to have been lost, was recently recovered from a collection of manuscripts of the Royal Music Conservatory in Brussels. This essay aims to explain why the freemasons thought such a cantata was in order and why Hanssens was willing to accept the commission. It also seeks to elaborate on the relationship between the masonic ritual and its music and will conclude by explaining the failure of this ritual, which resulted in the cantata being shelved and forgotten.

Taillon, Paul M., Good, Reliable White Men – Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917 (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, The Working Class in American History series, 2009), pages xi + 266, $25US, Pbk. ISBN: 978-0-252-03485-5.

Quelle: https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/14994

Freemasons and the Press in 1860s Brisbane

Freemasons formed their first lodge in Brisbane in 1859 and the craft grew and spread quickly through Queensland. In studying associational life in Britain, Peter Clark has drawn attention to the relationship of freemasons to the development of the pop…

Alberto, Paulina L., Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011), xiv + 395 pp., $29.95 Pbk, ISBN 978-0-8078-7171-3.

Quelle: https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/15117