Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Művészettörténeti Intézet
- Kód
- BA-ERA-IAH-S-8
- Cím
- Freemasonry—History, Symbolism, and Western Culture
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 6
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- Course content The course explores the history of Freemasonry with its rich cultural and visual heritage. Students will learn about various aspects of the Masonic brotherhood, including its historical development, origin myths, tenets, secrets, initiations, rituals, symbols, and its visual and material culture. Furthermore, such topics will be addressed as Freemasonry’s connection to religion, Enlightenment, Templarism, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, women, esotericism, alchemy, and Kabbalah. The course will also cover the history of the academic research into Freemasonry, and its challenges. Required reading Bogdan, Henrik and Jan A. M. Snoek (eds), Handbook of Freemasonry (Leiden: Brill, 2014) — readings will be discussed in class Curl, James Stevens, Freemasonry & the Enlightenment: Architecture, Symbols, & Influences (London: Historical Publications, 2011), “Tracing-Boards,” 98–113 Prescott, Andrew and Mitchell Sommers, “The Origins of Freemasonry and the Invention of Tradition,” Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society 7, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 1–19 Snoek, Jan A.M., “Researching Freemasonry: Where Are We?” Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism 1, no. 2 (2010): 227–48 Recommended reading MacNulty, Kirk W., Freemasonry: Symbols, Secrets, Significance (London: Thames & Hudson, 2006) Önnerfors, Andreas, Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) Péter, Róbert, “Secular British Masonic Rituals?” in The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750–1850: Selected Papers, 2005, ed. Frederick C. Schneid and Susan Conner (High Point: High Point University, 2007), 13–24