A British Freemasonry 1717–1813 c. ötkötetes kritikai forrásgyűjtemény ismertetése

Péter, Róbert (2019) A British Freemasonry 1717–1813 c. ötkötetes kritikai forrásgyűjtemény ismertetése. In: Forráskutatás, forráskiadás, tudománytörténet III. MNYT; ELTE BTK Magyar Nyelvtudományi és Finnugor Intézet, Budapest, pp. 289-296.

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Abstract

This paper is an attempt to summarize the rationale and the editorial principles of the fivevolume British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 (New York: Routledge, 2016) with a special focus on the last two volumes. The purpose of this primary source collection is to collate diverse rare print and manuscript materials that provide a broad spectrum of insights into the history and culture of Freemasonry in the British Isles between 1717 and 1813. This collection is the result of extensive archival research and transcription and highlights the most significant themes associated with British and Irish Freemasonry during the period in question. The volumes draw on a wide range of documents, including an engraved list of lodges, rituals (some originally written in cipher), rules and regulations, by-laws, funeral services, lectures, charges, sermons, orations, songs, certificates, theatrical prologues and epilogues, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles and letters. A special emphasis is placed on documents that enhance our present understanding of the role that British and Irish Freemasons played in the formation of eighteenth-century society and associational culture. This paper demonstrates how the analysis of these documents will hopefully foster scholarly debate and offer new perspectives on wider historical, cultural, social and religious themes. Many of the texts included in these volumes remain very difficult to consult outside masonic archives. Such institutions store many rare eighteenth-century items, which are not recorded in the English Short Title Catalogue and are thus excluded from digital collections. For example, the Library and Museum of Freemasonry in London has not previously given permission to fully reproduce rituals of the so-called higher degrees. Hence, the rituals included in this edition are published here for the first time in their entirety and with annotations. Furthermore, the edition reproduces texts that were (deliberately) overlooked by masonic historians in their publications.

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