THE IMAGINARY DISCOURSE EMPLOYED BY OPERATIVE FREEMASONS IN RESHAPING THE MEDIEVAL SOCIAL REALITY
THE IMAGINARY DISCOURSE EMPLOYED BY OPERATIVE FREEMASONS IN RESHAPING THE MEDIEVAL SOCIAL REALITY
Author(s): Antoniu Alexandru FlandorferSubject(s): Cultural history, Diplomatic history, History of ideas, Middle Ages
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: imaginary discourse; operative freemasonry; Old Charges; Gothic cathedral;
Summary/Abstract: This study aims to demonstrate in its main premise the potency of the discourse medieval masons' employed in order to reshape the social reality in which they appeared and developed as a distinct group within the community and thus succeed through their vocational mission to impose upon the socio-cultural vector their own imaginary at the level of the collective mind, in order to configure a new order of the ecclesia.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 965-976
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Romanian