The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

The European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century is conventionally taken to be the period in which the disciplines of philosophy, history, economics and anthropology, and other social sciences ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art has trained focus on the Enlightenment period in Europe (1685–1815, aka “the age of reason”) with ...

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It was a period of heated political tension, which started in the previous century and ramped up after the French Revolution [1798],” says the historian. “It was in this context that he drafted his ...