2009 Conference
The Origins of Freemasonry
The Eleventh International Conference organised by CMRC
Saturday & Sunday 24-25 October 2009
Canonbury Academy, 6 Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ
The Architectural College of the Freemasons of the Church, 1842-1849
Frank Albo
“Passed on from the Depths of Ages”
Eighteenth-Century Russian visions of the origins of Freemasonry
Natalie Bayer
Champions of the Old Charges
Martin Cherry BA
Smoothing the Russian Ashlar
Masonic influence at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725
Dr Robert Collis
A Trade Fraternity
The Society of Free-Masons
Andy Durr
The religious origins of Freemasonry
Professor Dr José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli
Seeking For That Which Was Never There
The historiography of the origins of Freemasonry
John Hamill BA ALA
The Genesis of Freemasonry
A historiographical view
Dr David Harrison
Why do the origins of Freemasonry matter?
New approaches to the European Enlightenment
Professor Margaret Jacob
De-constructing the Rosicrucian Myth
Peter Kebbell
The religious origins of English Freemasonry
Christian, Latitudinarian, Deist or Atheist?
Dr Róbert Péter MA MScs
Approaches to the Old Charges
Professor Andrew Prescott
Empiricism and Seventeenth-Century Accepted Freemasonry
Matthew Scanlan
Creating Identity
The origins of Freemasonry as presented in two early Arabic masonic writings
Stephan Schmid
Moranos, masons, and the case of the mislaid text
Dr Susan Mitchell Sommers
Circles and Straight Lines
Compasses and Squares
Emeritus Professor David Stevenson