Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300–2000

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Seven Hundred Years of Fraternal Orders

   • Daniel Weinbren

   Pages 1-29

3. Men and Women in the Guild Returns

   • Andrew Prescott

   Pages 30-51

4. Women in Monastic Orders

   • Anne Winston-Allen

   Pages 52-62

5. The Archduchess and the Parrot

   • Meg Twycross

   Pages 63-90

6. Masonic Apologetic Writings

   • Robert Beachy

   Pages 91-101

7. Chilvaric Muses: The Role and Influence of Protectresses in Eighteenth-Century Jacobite Fraternities

   • Robert Collis

   Pages 102-132

8. ‘The Fair Sex’ in a ‘Male Sect’: Gendering the Role of Women in Eighteenth-Century English Freemasonry

   • Róbert Péter

   Pages 133-155

9. ‘Sisters of Virtue’ in Swedish Pomerania

   • Andreas Önnerfors

   Pages 156-179

10. The Politics of Sociability? French Masonic Culture before the Revolution

    • James Smith Allen

    Pages 180-199

11. The Fraternity of Female Friendly Societies

    • Daniel Weinbren

    Pages 200-222

12. Flora Tristan’s Appeal for Fraternity

    • Máire Fedelma Cross

    Pages 223-243

13. Civil Space and Gender Roles in Lerwick’s Up Helly Aa

    • Pamela M. King

    Pages 244-259

14. Back Matter

    Pages 260-270

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What have medieval nuns, parrot shooting, Freemasonry, and Shetland revelry got in common? This study of monastic orders, guilds, Freemasonry and friendly societies over centuries and across frontiers provides new insights into their contribution to the gendering of public space and the evolution of 'separate spheres' in Europe.

• Europe
• Freemasonry
• gender
• revolution
• women

• University of Newcastle, UK

  Máire Fedelma Cross

ROBERT BEACHY Associate Professor of European History, Goucher College, USA ROBERT COLLIS Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK MÁIRE CROSS Professor of French, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University UK PAMELA KING Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Bristol, UK ANDREAS ÖNNERFORS Director of the Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, University of Sheffield, UK RÓBERT PÉTER Senior Assistant Professor in the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary ANDREW PRESCOTT Director of Research, the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, UK JAMES SMITH ALLEN Professor of History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA MEG TWYCROSS Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies, Lancaster University, UK DAN WEINBREN Chair of the Friendly Societies Research Group, The Open University, UK ANNE WINSTON-ALLEN Professor of German Studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

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