La revalorización del medievo en la estética masónicaInglaterra y Escocia (siglos XIX y XX).

Abstract

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.