Margaret C. JACOB

THE RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT
Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans

Dear Readers,

This book , a landmark in the studies of Masonic influences regarding the period of European enlightenment mainly in the Netherlands, has become impossible to find since the original publisher Allen & Unwib no longer exists.

In this second revised edition the author has removed the now dated bibliographical essay that preceded the first edition and has updated the notes, quoting the new books published after the 1981, and their numbering system.

Prof. Jacob takes in account the scholarship of the last twenty years, in order to modernize and shorten the text in places and she corrects some minor errors in trascription that appeared in the 1981 edition.

Prof. Margaret C. Jacob would be included in any Masonic scholar’s list of living experts on Masonic research, and she would probably be at the top of most such lists. She has written several books and learned articles about Freemasonry, including "Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth Century Europe, published in 1991"

In this second revised edition of "The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans" new evidence from Masonic archives has been incorporated into the work which I am sure will be of interest to any researcher.

A real coup for The Temple Publishers and its editor Bro.Joe Ohlandt.