Molles, DevrigDevrigMollesMarcos Parada UlloaSanchez, Manuel RomoManuel RomoSanchez2026-07-072026-07-072025REVISTA DE HISTORIOGRAFIA, 40, 381-412 (2025). https://doi.org/10.20318/revhisto.2025.86271885-27182445-0057https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12740/24620This article aims to analyse the >, one of the first historiographical currents specialized on a poorly known object: freemasonry. The > has not received much academic attention. It was originally a movement developed by certain Anglo-Saxon Freemasons. Their goal was to dust off the apocryphal accounts which, at that time (and still today), served as the basis for the instruction of the Masons themselves. His texts continue to circulate, at least in Latin America where they are the objects of uncritical translations and reissues. This article first evaluates the general epistemological framework that framed his formation: the creation of the social and historical sciences. He then discusses his genealogy and characteristics, from Germany to the United States through England. It ends with a reflective balance based on two questions: to what extent is it relevant today to resort to these works? What were its origins, foundations, scope, and limitations?info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessHistoriographyfreemasonryempireGermanyEnglandUnited States19th centuryArticulohttps://doi.org/10.20318/revhisto.2025.8627