The Art And Architecture Of Freemasonry

• The Art And Architecture Of Freemasonry
  J.S. Curl – Batsford, 1991 - 272 pp. - £45

This work should play an important role in the campaign waged by a few historians to rescue masonic history from the cranks and sensation-seekers who so often dominate perceptions of the subject. It strongly reinforces the argument that cultural and intellectual life in the eighteenth century cannot be properly understood without accepting the centrality of freemasonry. Yet in the English-speaking world historians tend to turn their backs disdainfully on a movement which they regard as, at best, bizarre and embarrassing.