Civility, Male Friendship, and Masonic Sociability in Nineteenth‐Century Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7105419 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan‐ludwig Hoffmann (0000-0002-3238-5625, Ruhr University Bochum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-248 |
| Publication date | 2001-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0953-5233 • E-ISSN: 1468-0424 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0424.00227 |
| OpenAlex | W2140082251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Largely neglected by historians who assume that its heyday passed in Europe with the demise of the Old Regime, Freemasonry in fact became a mass phenomenon among German (and French as well as American) middle‐class men in the nineteenth century. Masonic secrecy made possible a form of sociability which allowed men to experience intimate relations with each other. Within the lodge, men could experience the emotional drama of the rituals while, both in public and in the family, men increasingly sought to comply with the ideal of a man ruled by reason. Masonic rituals entailed the implicit message that the most important presupposition for civility, moral improvement and a ‘brotherhood of all men’ was male friendship
Aesthetics · Art · Civility · Demise · Distrust · Drama · Friendship · German · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Political science · Secrecy · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · German Social Sciences and History · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2014 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |