This volume examines the progress of classical studies to the general history of ideas from 1650 to 1870.

Composed of free and accepted masons who are desirous of receiving and dispersing Masonic knowledge, the Lux e Tenebris Chapter of the Phylaxis Society is a research institute appointed to explore and scrutinize historical information, validate with a reasonable degree of certainty diversified Masonic perspectives, and publish annually scholarly manuscripts as transaction of the organization.

What were Shakespeare's final thoughts on history, tragedy, and comedy? Shakespeare's Last Plays focuses much needed scholarly attention on Shakespeare's "Late Romances." The work--a collection of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars of classical political philosophy and literature--offers careful textual analysis of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The essays reveal how Shakespeare's thought in these final works compliments, challenges, fulfills, or transforms previously held conceptions of the playwright and his political-philosophical views.

Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia.