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Contents Preface vii Introduction 1 Part 1: The Origins of Freemasonry from Ancient Times to the Middle Ages 1 The Ancient Corporations: Colleges of Builders in Rome 4 2 The Collegia and the Barbarian Invasions 18 3 Ecclesiastical and Monastic Associations 34 4 Secular Brotherhoods: The Germanic and Anglo-Saxon Guilds 51 5 The Crusades and the Templars 62 6 The Templars, the Francs Metiers, and Freemasonry 81 7 The Templars and the Parisian Builders 102 Part 2. From the Art of Building to the Art of Thinking 8 Mason Corporations in France 146 9 Builders Corporations in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland 168 10 The Corporative Masonry of Great Britain 180 11 Universal Freemasonry 205 12 Speculative Freemasonry 221 13 The Grand Lodges and Modern Freemasonry 247 Conclusion 270 Notes 278 Index 293 Preface I state with all modesty, and without presuming to underestimate the value of preceding works on the subject, that to date there has been no truly scientific history of the origins of Freemasonry and that such a
The history of Freemasonry and its origins will form the first part of this book. In the second part, we will study the evolution of the pro- In the second part, we will study the evolution of the pro-
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