It is now more than twenty years since Prof David Stevenson boldly answered the age-old question
– Where and when did speculative Freemasonry begin?
His answer was – In Scotland with the Schaw Statutes of 1598.
His presentation of this thesis at a meeting of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Masonic research in London in 19941 was rejected with hostility (Prof Stevenson is not a freemason) especially by London-centric Masonic scholars.
An earlier review of his book, “The Origins of Freemasonry” was also critical.
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2012 - THE ORIGINS OF SPECULATIVE FREEMASONRY AND MODERN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE - Robert Hughes Montgomery.
