Synopses & Reviews
The second, revised edition of a new Masonic classic available in searchable text PDF format. The new edition attempts to modernize the footnotes, removes a few errors in transcription found in quotations used in the first edition, and not least, offers a new preface. The thesis presented in The Radical Enlightenment has withstood the test of time and in the last twenty years been augmented and made more distinct by a variety of historians working on both sides of the Atlantic.
Synopsis
When first published in 1981, The Radical Enlightenment encountered both praise and blame. In the course of time it became a classic. In the era after 1945 the book was perhaps the first English language scholarly work to address freemasonry seriously. a landmark in the studies of Masonic influences regarding the period of European enlightenment - Bruno Gazzo, Editor of Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry This book chronicles those beginning events in Europe which gave Freemasons a proud heritage of freedom and fighting for it. Try Jacob's book. I'll bet you buy extra copies to give to your friends. - Jim Tresner, Ph.D., Book Review Editor, The Scottish Rite Journal