Sheffield Lectures Vol.2 published by the Centre for Research into Freemasonry

09.10.2009

Sheffield Lectures on the History of Freemasonry and Fraternalism 
Volume 2: Freemasonry and Fraternalism in Eighteenth-Century Russia

published by the Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism (CRFF), University of Sheffield. 

The volume, with the title Freemasonry and Fraternalism in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Eds. A. Önnerfors and R. Collis), contains five papers on various aspects of Russian freemasonry and fraternalism from Peter to Catherine the Great and is the first of its kind ever published in English. The remarkable history of the introduction of freemasonry and other fraternal groups clearly demonstrates that associational life was an integrated part of cultural exchange in Europe of the time and that British freemasonry freely moved across cultural and linguistic borders. For all friends of the CRFF it is needless to tell that all income generated by the sale of the book directly will benefit our research activities. 

Table of Contents 

Acknowledgements 
List of Contributors

Introduction 
Andreas Önnerfors 

The Petrine Round Table: Chivalry, Travesty 
and Fraternalism at the Court of Peter the Great 
Ernest Zitser 

Hewing the Rough Stone: Masonic Influence 
in Peter the Great’s Russia, 1689 - 1725 
Robert Collis 

Utopian Spaces of Russian Masons in the Enlightenment 
Tatiana Artemyeva 

Anglo-Russian Masonic Links during the Reign of Catherine the Great 
Anthony Cross 

The ‘Société Antiabsurde’: Catherine the Great and Freemasonry 
Natalie Bayer 

Index

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