While the Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th centuries was a time when ... across Europe. This reduction in religious power continued into the 18th century, particularly during the French ...

The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, highlights the establishment and growth of European deaf communities during an age of widespread enlightenment and their impact on sign ...

Many know the years before the Renaissance and Enlightenment that followed as Europe’s “Dark Ages,” a time of backward ... that handwashing only faded during the supposedly more ...

Something quite extraordinary happened in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries: the diversified intellectual explosion called the Enlightenment ... we spend our time considering whether ...

But during the time of this great shaking—from the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the Enlightenment ... observes that “European governments were slowly ...

“The Great Divide” explores how ideas that came to the fore during the Enlightenment at once blurred social hierarchies and reinforced them, particularly along lines of gender and race.

One traditional answer is that the Enlightenment with a capital “E” was part of the making of the modern world, and that it flourished conspicuously in 18th-century Europe — especially in ...

This project, undertaken by the leading thinkers of the time ... As European powers spread across the globe, they used racial notions of personhood—pioneered by Enlightenment thinkers—to ...

Humanism and the keen interest in reason common to many of those smitten with Aristotelean philosophy during these centuries ... Catholic Church during this time. The church itself was beset ...