Professor Andrew Burstein talked about the Enlightenment era in America and the ideas that shaped the politics and morals of the Revolutionary generation. He spoke about Benjamin Franklin’s ...

Yet while the names most remembered from the Enlightenment era – Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Paine – belong to men, there were many women who participated in and influenced the intellectual ...

In truth, though, John V. Fleming's "The Dark Side of the Enlightenment" and Paul Kleber Monod's "Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment" are surprisingly different ...

The biggest ever exhibition celebrating the Scottish Enlightenment – the nation’s golden era of great thinkers – is to be staged this year. The National Library of Scotland will bring ...

It is a gripping, based-on-a-true-story view of a pivotal era in Denmark, when the Enlightenment was introduced to the country and palace forces worked to restore control by the nobility and the ...