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Medievalista

 ISSN 1646-740X

LOPEZ, David Martín. La revalorización del medievo en la estética masónica: Inglaterra y Escocia (siglos XIX y XX). []. , 15, pp.01-28. ISSN 1646-740X.

This essay reflects, from a multidisciplinary and holistic perspective, how the medievalism interacts with the aesthetics of Freemasonry from its origins to 20th century, as a group with a supranational identity, principally in Great Britain -England and Scotland-. Freemasonry, considered as one of the first “social network”, emerged in contemporary society of the pre-Enlightenment in England (1717), draw a global map of corporatism -whether philanthropic, educational, ethical, moral and even political senses could met there- with the principles and aesthetic values associated with arts and architecture. This aspects generates in Freemasonry, a national identity, a strong debate and revaluation of the Medieval culture in Europe, where freemasons as Walter Scott claimed the Gothic as the unique style.

: Freemasonry; Gothic revival; architecture; aesthetics; universalism; national identity.

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