Masonry and women yards

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Masonry and women yards

These few lines are a first sketch for a larger work that can not be completed here, I want to be a reminder and a "provocation" at the same time.

Talk about Freemasonry, it is not easy, ironically not easy "listen" to Freemasonry, in the sense that the information and counter-information are so many, varied and in some cases damaged that it is almost impossible without a guide to approach the topic. Once you approach the Freemasons, then we must understand what aspect of the society we want to approach. You can get closer to Freemasonry itself, ie, the blue one, you can study the various Rites, you can look in the history, you can be fascinated looking esoteric, you can try the Lobby and the Devil and so on. As if this were not enough, many authors Masonic and anti-Masonic arise as having absolute truths. This framework apparent disheartening is complicated even more when you enter the world of proto Freemasonry (ie the period prior to 24.06.1717). The problem with many studies on Freemasonry is in the approach to the issue. Many authors and do not know why ignore all references and canonical authors who have studied history, philosophy etc. in the periods under review, it is almost like a pull out of reality and the scientific and academic community. I'm not a lover of the academy and the scientific communities, but sometimes ignore them is not good.

But let's get to the title of this note, women Freemasonry Anglo-Saxon-style that harks back to ancient customs, as established in the landmark and in the constitutions of Anderson of 1723 can not be started. But it is true that women were not part of the guilds of the masons? The same applies to the construction sites, the history of architecture, social history of the Middle Ages, etc. often it is preferred to idealize or "exploit" instead of studying, comparing, check. On the same card Bologna 1248 A.D. there are too few studies. Yet in ancient customs, in the ancient statutes no information and use of the practices used by contemporary Freemasonry without more awareness and / or memory.

Looking at the bibliographies of countless studies on Freemasonry we notice the absence of key authors for a study "science" of matter. Here are some great absent: J. Le Goff, J. Huzinga, M. Bloch, F. Cardini, E. Garin, U. Eco, E. Zolla, W. Tatarkiewicz, J. Baltrusaitis, C. Charbonneau-Lassay, E. Gilson, A. de Libera, E. Male, E. Panofsky, to name just a few authors. These absences, especially for those jobs that arise outside of an esoteric outright denote, albeit in good faith, an impossibility to a broad approach and considered independently of sectarian and dogmatic masonry, not just from having these absences the strong tools to detractors of Freemasonry.

I realize, as I write these lines have become more of my original intention and are becoming a critical (not your gross) to many scholars who have given so much. Without this critical, without a strong rethinking of the approach to the study of things Masonic perhaps nothing will change, but if we will expand the spectrum, if the launch of the dreams and wishes of our spirit and intellect may be able to better penetrate a complex world and fascinating as that of Freemasonry.

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