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9780801452437
Book Title
Brotherly Love : Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France
Item Length
9.3in
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication Year
2014
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.6in
Author
Kenneth B. Loiselle
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Family & Relationships, History, Social Science
Topic
Friendship, Freemasonry & Secret Societies, Modern / 18th Century, Europe / France, Men's Studies, Customs & Traditions
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
32 Oz
Number of Pages
280 Pages

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Kenneth Loiselle not only examines the place of friendship in eighteenth-century French society and culture but also contributes to the history of emotions and masculinity.

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Cornell University Press
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0801452430
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9780801452437
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Book Title
Brotherly Love : Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France
Author
Kenneth B. Loiselle
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Friendship, Freemasonry & Secret Societies, Modern / 18th Century, Europe / France, Men's Studies, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Family & Relationships, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
280 Pages

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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
32 Oz

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Hs603.L65 2014
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"Freemasonry constituted the largest secular voluntary associative network in eighteenth-century France. As Kenneth Loiselle shows in this absorbing, penetrating colorfully textured study, the Masonic lodge also offered a kind of Enlightenment laboratory for experimentation in personal subjectivity and relations of male friendship. Impressively researched and elegantly written, Brotherly Love offers a compelling vision of what it felt like to feel as well as to think in the French Enlightenment."--Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London, author of The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, "Thoroughly researched and steeped in state-of-the-art scholarship, Kenneth Loiselle's Brotherly Love treats a subject of abiding interest: friendship. Much discussed by ancient commentators and Enlightenment moderns, the bonds of friendships were tried and tested in that most intimate of eighteenth-century settings: the Masonic lodge. Loiselle brings this setting to life in an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies. Friends of the Enlightenment, and enlightened friends, will be pleased." --Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University, author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius, "Kenneth Loiselle has joined together several major strands of historiography and examined a rich corpus of archival evidence to produce an important study of sociability in eighteenth-century France. The strands derive from classic and recent works on Freemasonry, social relations, gender, secularization, emotion, and the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Loiselle is a helpful guide to, and friendly critic of, the existing literature, and his own analysis of records from Mason lodges and correspondence between individual Masons turns what risked being a synthetic review of the familiar into an original and compelling treatment of matters central to historical study."-David G. Troyansky, American Historical Review, "Eighteenth-century Freemasonry has always attracted historical interest. A perennial question for historians is how far Freemasonry may have served as a link between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The subject has also stirred the attention of the wider public, attracted by Freemasonry's aura as a mysterious society that shrouds its arcane rituals in secrecy. The great originality of Loiselle's contribution is that he has combined his close-grained study of Freemasonry with the burgeoning interest in both the study of gender relations and the emotionalhistory of friendship to give us a fresh perspective on a seemingly well-worn topic. Loiselle combines this new interpretive approach with a thorough grounding in much unfamiliar source material, making this a very welcome and opportune study. Loiselle shows an admirable attention to thesources, enabling him to give a convincing-and often touching-picture of what Masonic friendships meant to the men who experienced them. Loiselle states that his primary aim in this book is to use the Masonic movement as a 'prism to understand more clearly how ordinary men conceived of and lived friendship in eighteenth-century France' (p. 8). He has admirably succeeded in his purpose, giving us a historically sensitive account of the lived experience of male friendship, and what it meant to be a man, a friend, and a Mason."-Marisa Linton, H-France Review​, "Kenneth Loiselle has joined together several majorstrands of historiography and examined a rich corpus ofarchival evidenceto producean important study of sociability in eighteenth-centuryFrance. The strands derive from classic and recentworks on Freemasonry, social relations, gender, secularization,emotion, and the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Loiselle is ahelpful guide to, and friendly critic of, the existing literature,and his own analysis of records from Masoniclodges and correspondence between individual Masonsturns what risked being a synthetic review of the familiarinto an original and compelling treatment of matterscentral to historical study."--David G. Troyansky, American Historical Review, Kenneth Loiselle has joined together several major strands of historiography and examined a rich corpus of archival evidence to produce an important study of sociability in eighteenth-century France. The strands derive from classic and recent works on Freemasonry, social relations, gender, secularization, emotion, and the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Loiselle is a helpful guide to, and friendly critic of, the existing literature, and his own analysis of records from Mason lodges and correspondence between individual Masons turns what risked being a synthetic review of the familiar into an original and compelling treatment of matters central to historical study., This well-documented study is the fruit of much archival research in the Masonic collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and numerous regional collections. An enjoyable read, the work successfully places the project of Masonic practices in their social and cultural environments in a convincingly analytical and varied way. Beyond the Masonic realm, it brings a stimulating contribution to the study of masculine sociability in the eighteenth century., "Brotherly Love is a remarkably fine book that reads its sourcescarefully, uncovers new ones, and restores friendship to a place of centrality within eighteenth-century French freemasonry. . . . We know that a book is exceptionally good when it leads outward toward other important historical issues. . . . Kenneth Loiselle writes beautifully, and engagingly he has tackled major historical questions: what were the emotional bonds created by the enlightened emphasis on transparency? Can we get around the conspiracy theorists and yet acknowledge that freemasonry did contribute to the making of the French Revolution without endorsing their arguments about its having played a political role? Brotherly Love adds immensely to the restoration of freemasonry as a vital area of historical inquiry within American universities. It is a wonderful achievement."--Margaret Jacob, Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, "Thoroughly researched and steeped in state-of-the-art scholarship, Kenneth Loiselle's Brotherly Love treats a subject of abiding interest: friendship. Much discussed by ancient commentators and Enlightenment moderns, the bonds of friendships were tried and tested in that most intimate of eighteenth-century settings: the Masonic lodge. Loiselle brings this setting to life in an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies. Friends of the Enlightenment, and enlightened friends, will be pleased." --Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University, author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius​, "Freemasonry constituted the largest secular voluntary associative network in eighteenth-century France. As Kenneth Loiselle shows in this absorbing, penetrating colorfully textured study, the Masonic lodge also offered a kind of Enlightenment laboratory for experimentation in personal subjectivity and relations of male friendship. Impressively researched and elegantly written, Brotherly Love offers a compelling vision of what it felt like to feel as well as to think in the French Enlightenment."-Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London, author of The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon​, "This well-documented study is the fruit of much archival research in the Masonic collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and numerous regional collections. An enjoyable read, the work successfully places the project of Masonic practices in their social and cultural environments in a convincingly analytical and varied way. Beyond the Masonic realm, it brings a stimulating contribution to the study of masculine sociability in the 18th century." --Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire,Annales(Spring 2016), Kenneth Loiselle's book adds to the literature on Masonry by examining the relatively neglected topic of the private and emotional dimensions of this phenomenon. As he convincingly argues, friendship was central to the appeal and experience of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century. By studying the ritual and affective lives of Masons, this book also contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on private life, friendship, masculinity and the emotions as well as the more established literatures on how the Enlightenment was lived and the connections between the Enlightenment and the Revolution.... Loiselle is deeply engaged with the intellectual history of friendship and shows how Masons put Enlightenment ideals about the self and society into practice.... One of the merits of this book... is that it does not just consider norms and discourses but also the experience of Masonic friendship and shows the constant interaction between these two domains., "This well-documented study is the fruit of much archival research in the Masonic collections of the Bibliothque nationale de France and numerous regional collections. An enjoyable read, the work successfully places the project of Masonic practices in their social and cultural environments in a convincingly analytical and varied way. Beyond the Masonic realm, it brings a stimulating contribution to the study of masculine sociability in the 18th century." -Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire,Annales(Spring 2016), Eighteenth-century Freemasonry has always attracted historical interest. A perennial question for historians is how far Freemasonry may have served as a link between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The subject has also stirred the attention of the wider public, attracted by Freemasonry's aura as a mysterious society that shrouds its arcane rituals in secrecy. The great originality of Loiselle's contribution is that he has combined his close-grained study of Freemasonry with the burgeoning interest in both the study of gender relations and the emotional history of friendship to give us a fresh perspective on a seemingly well-worn topic. Loiselle combines this new interpretive approach with a thorough grounding in much unfamiliar source material, making this a very welcome and opportune study. Loiselle shows an admirable attention to the sources, enabling him to give a convincing--and often touching--picture of what Masonic friendships meant to the men who experienced them. Loiselle states that his primary aim in this book is to use the Masonic movement as a 'prism to understand more clearly how ordinary men conceived of and lived friendship in eighteenth-century France' (p. 8). He has admirably succeeded in his purpose, giving us a historically sensitive account of the lived experience of male friendship, and what it meant to be a man, a friend, and a Mason., "Kenneth Loiselle's book adds to the literature on Masonry by examining the relatively neglected topic of the private and emotional dimensions of this phenomenon. As he convincingly argues, friendship was central to the appeal and experience of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century. By studying the ritual and affective lives of Masons, this book also contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on private life, friendship, masculinity and the emotions as well as the more established literatures on how the Enlightenment was lived and the connections between the Enlightenment and the Revolution. . . . Loiselle is deeply engaged with the intellectual history of friendship and shows how Masons put Enlightenment ideals about the self and society into practice. . . . One of the merits of this book. . . is that it does not just consider norms and discourses but also the experience of Masonic friendship and shows the constant interaction between these two domains."--Sarah Horowitz, French History (June 2015), This well-documented study is the fruit of much archival research in the Masonic collections of the Bibliothque nationale de France and numerous regional collections. An enjoyable read, the work successfully places the project of Masonic practices in their social and cultural environments in a convincingly analytical and varied way. Beyond the Masonic realm, it brings a stimulating contribution to the study of masculine sociability in the eighteenth century., "Thoroughly researched and steeped in state-of-the-art scholarship, Kenneth Loiselle's Brotherly Love treats a subject of abiding interest: friendship. Much discussed by ancient commentators and Enlightenment moderns, the bonds of friendships were tried and tested in that most intimate of eighteenth-century settings: the Masonic lodge. Loiselle brings this setting to life in an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies. Friends of the Enlightenment, and enlightened friends, will be pleased." -Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University, author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius​, "Thoroughly researched and steeped in state-of-the-art scholarship, Kenneth Loiselle's Brotherly Love treats a subject of abiding interest: friendship. Much discussed by ancient commentators and Enlightenment moderns, the bonds of friendships were tried and tested in that most intimate of eighteenth-century settings: the Masonic lodge. Loiselle brings this setting to life in an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies. Friends of the Enlightenment, and enlightened friends, will be pleased." -Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University, author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius?, "This well-documented study is the fruit of much archival research in the Masonic collections of the Bibliothque nationale de France and numerous regional collections. An enjoyable read, the work successfully places the project of Masonic practices in their social and cultural environments in a convincingly analytical and varied way. Beyond the Masonic realm, it brings a stimulating contribution to the study of masculine sociability in the 18th century." --Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire,Annales(Spring 2016), "Kenneth Loiselle's book adds to the literature on Masonry by examining the relatively neglected topic of the private and emotional dimensions of this phenomenon. As he convincingly argues, friendship was central to the appeal and experience of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century.By studying the ritual and affective lives of Masons, this book also contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on private life, friendship, masculinity and the emotions as well as the more established literatures on how the Enlightenment was lived and the connections between the Enlightenment and the Revolution.. . .Loiselle is deeply engaged with the intellectual history of friendship and shows how Masons put Enlightenment ideals about the self and society into practice. . . .One of the merits of this book. . . is that it does not just consider norms and discourses but also the experience of Masonic friendship and shows the constant interaction between these two domains."--Sarah Horowitz,Oxford University Press Journals, French History(June 2015), "Eighteenth-century Freemasonry has always attracted historical interest. A perennial question for historians is how far Freemasonry may have served as a link between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The subject has also stirred the attention of the wider public, attracted by Freemasonry's aura as a mysterious society that shrouds its arcane rituals in secrecy. The great originality of Loiselle's contribution is that he has combined his close-grained study of Freemasonry with the burgeoning interest in both the study of gender relations and the emotionalhistory of friendship to give us a fresh perspective on a seemingly well-worn topic. Loiselle combines this new interpretive approach with a thorough grounding in much unfamiliar source material, making this a very welcome and opportune study. Loiselle shows an admirable attention to thesources, enabling him to give a convincing--and often touching--picture of what Masonic friendships meant to the men who experienced them. Loiselle states that his primary aim in this book is to use the Masonic movement as a 'prism to understand more clearly how ordinary men conceived of and lived friendship in eighteenth-century France' (p. 8). He has admirably succeeded in his purpose, giving us a historically sensitive account of the lived experience of male friendship, and what it meant to be a man, a friend, and a Mason."--Marisa Linton, H-France Review​, "Kenneth Loiselle's book adds to the literature on Masonry by examining the relatively neglected topic of the private and emotional dimensions of this phenomenon. As he convincingly argues, friendship was central to the appeal and experience of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century. By studying the ritual and affective lives of Masons, this book also contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on private life, friendship, masculinity and the emotions as well as the more established literatures on how the Enlightenment was lived and the connections between the Enlightenment and the Revolution."--French History, "Kenneth Loiselle has joined together several major strands of historiography and examined a rich corpus of archival evidence to produce an important study of sociability in eighteenth-century France. The strands derive from classic and recent works on Freemasonry, social relations, gender, secularization, emotion, and the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Loiselle is a helpful guide to, and friendly critic of, the existing literature, and his own analysis of records from Mason lodges and correspondence between individual Masons turns what risked being a synthetic review of the familiar into an original and compelling treatment of matters central to historical study."--David G. Troyansky, American Historical Review, "Freemasonry constituted the largest secular voluntary associative network in eighteenth-century France. As Kenneth Loiselle shows in this absorbing, penetrating colorfully textured study, the Masonic lodge also offered a kind of Enlightenment laboratory for experimentation in personal subjectivity and relations of male friendship. Impressively researched and elegantly written, Brotherly Love offers a compelling vision of what it felt like to feel as well as to think in the French Enlightenment."-Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London, author of The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon?, "Freemasonry constituted the largest secular voluntary associative network in eighteenth-century France. As Kenneth Loiselle shows in this absorbing, penetrating colorfully textured study, the Masonic lodge also offered a kind of Enlightenment laboratory for experimentation in personal subjectivity and relations of male friendship. Impressively researched and elegantly written, Brotherly Love offers a compelling vision of what it felt like to feel as well as to think in the French Enlightenment."--Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London, author of The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon​, Freemasonry constituted the largest secular voluntary associative network in eighteenth-century France. As Kenneth Loiselle shows in this absorbing, penetrating colorfully textured study, the Masonic lodge also offered a kind of Enlightenment laboratory for experimentation in personal subjectivity and relations of male friendship. Impressively researched and elegantly written, Brotherly Love offers a compelling vision of what it felt like to feel as well as to think in the French Enlightenment., Brotherly Love is a remarkably fine book that reads its sourcescarefully, uncovers new ones, and restores friendship to a place of centrality within eighteenth-century French freemasonry.... We know that a book is exceptionally good when it leads outward toward other important historical issues.... Kenneth Loiselle writes beautifully, and engagingly he has tackled major historical questions: what were the emotional bonds created by the enlightened emphasis on transparency? Can we get around the conspiracy theorists and yet acknowledge that freemasonry did contribute to the making of the French Revolution without endorsing their arguments about its having played a political role? Brotherly Love adds immensely to the restoration of freemasonry as a vital area of historical inquiry within American universities. It is a wonderful achievement., "Eighteenth-century Freemasonry has always attracted historical interest. A perennial question for historians is how far Freemasonry may have served as a link between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The subject has also stirred the attention of the wider public, attracted by Freemasonry's aura as a mysterious society that shrouds its arcane rituals in secrecy. The great originality of Loiselle's contribution is that he has combined his close-grained study of Freemasonry with the burgeoning interest in both the study of gender relations and the emotionalhistory of friendship to give us a fresh perspective on a seemingly well-worn topic. Loiselle combines this new interpretive approach with a thorough grounding in much unfamiliar source material, making this a very welcome and opportune study. Loiselle shows an admirable attention to thesources, enabling him to give a convincing-and often touching-picture of what Masonic friendships meant to the men who experienced them. Loiselle states that his primary aim in this book is to use the Masonic movement as a 'prism to understand more clearly how ordinary men conceived of and lived friendship in eighteenth-century France' (p. 8). He has admirably succeeded in his purpose, giving us a historically sensitive account of the lived experience of male friendship, and what it meant to be a man, a friend, and a Mason."-Marisa Linton, H-France Review?, Thoroughly researched and steeped in state-of-the-art scholarship, Kenneth Loiselle's Brotherly Love treats a subject of abiding interest: friendship. Much discussed by ancient commentators and Enlightenment moderns, the bonds of friendships were tried and tested in that most intimate of eighteenth-century settings: the Masonic lodge. Loiselle brings this setting to life in an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies. Friends of the Enlightenment, and enlightened friends, will be pleased., "Eighteenth-century Freemasonry has always attracted historical interest. A perennial question for historians is how far Freemasonry may have served as a link between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The subject has also stirred the attention of the wider public, attracted by Freemasonry's aura as a mysterious society that shrouds its arcane rituals in secrecy. The great originality of Loiselle's contribution is that he has combined his close-grained study of Freemasonry with the burgeoning interest in both the study of gender relations and the emotionalhistory of friendship to give us a fresh perspective on a seemingly well-worn topic. Loiselle combines this new interpretive approach with a thorough grounding in much unfamiliar source material, making this a very welcome and opportune study.Loiselle shows an admirable attention to thesources, enabling him to give a convincing--and often touching--picture of what Masonic friendships meant to the men who experienced them. Loiselle states that his primary aim in this book is to use the Masonic movement as a 'prism to understand more clearly how ordinary men conceived of and lived friendship in eighteenth-century France' (p. 8). He has admirably succeeded in his purpose, giving us a historically sensitive account of the lived experience of male friendship, and what it meant to be a man, a friend, and a Mason."--Marisa Linton, H-France Review, "Kenneth Loiselle's book adds to the literature on Masonry by examining the relatively neglected topic of the private and emotional dimensions of this phenomenon. As he convincingly argues, friendship was central to the appeal and experience of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century. By studying the ritual and affective lives of Masons, this book also contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on private life, friendship, masculinity and the emotions as well as the more established literatures on how the Enlightenment was lived and the connections between the Enlightenment and the Revolution. . . . Loiselle is deeply engaged with the intellectual history of friendship and shows how Masons put Enlightenment ideals about the self and society into practice. . . . One of the merits of this book. . . is that it does not just consider norms and discourses but also the experience of Masonic friendship and shows the constant interaction between these two domains."-Sarah Horowitz, French History (June 2015), "Brotherly Love is a remarkably fine book that reads its sourcescarefully, uncovers new ones, and restores friendship to a place of centrality within eighteenth-century French freemasonry. . . . We know that a book is exceptionally good when it leads outward toward other important historical issues. . . . Kenneth Loiselle writes beautifully, and engagingly he has tackled major historical questions: what were the emotional bonds created by the enlightened emphasis on transparency? Can we get around the conspiracy theorists and yet acknowledge that freemasonry did contribute to the making of the French Revolution without endorsing their arguments about its having played a political role? Brotherly Love adds immensely to the restoration of freemasonry as a vital area of historical inquiry within American universities. It is a wonderful achievement."-Margaret Jacob, Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism
Table of Content
Introduction1. The Masonic Utopia of Friendship2. Friendship in Ritual3. Confronting the Specter of Sodomy4. "New but True Friends": The Friendship Network of Philippe-Valentin Bertin du Rocheret5. Friendship in the Age of Sensibility6. Friendship under Fire: Freemasonry in the French RevolutionConclusion Index
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2014-005279
Dewey Decimal
366/.1094409033
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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