AS TFTEM readers would know full well the history of Freemasonry prior to the early 1700’s is characterised by scattered pieces of “evidence” and, consequently, much speculation.
We find hints, references and allusions to proto-Freemasonry in diaries, letters, poems, local histories and official statutes.
We can also find much of the symbolism of latter day Freemasonry in the illustrations and drawings of scholars, and hermetic-alchemists of the 1500 and 1600’s, such as Dr Robert Fludd, Athanasius Kircher and Dr John Dee.
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2014 - Depictions of Freemasonry in Renaissance Art (?).
