Shmuel Feiner argues that it would seem logical that the Haskalah movement encouraged rather than discouraged women from ...

Further, he indicates that, “During the end of enlightenment era, historical actors were certain that the world had to change – what existed could not be sustained – and they lost all faith ...

10. The Enlightenment was not just an age of reason. Another popular misconception about the Enlightenment is that the movement accepted logic and reason at the expense of passion and emotion.

Titled “The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment,” the show assembles around 50 artifacts that tell a complex story of the Enlightenment era—at once a glittering age of reform ...

The age and ideals of Enlightenment gave the founders of the United States the foundation for what we use today in every form of government, from our national to local governments. Throughout 2025 ...

"Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment” looks at prints and drawings from the 18th century, a time of revolutions -- both political and idological. The exhibition encourages ...

Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier-de-Breteuil, known as the Marquise du Châtelet after her marriage at age 18, was a brilliant philosopher in the French Enlightenment, whose reputation has too long ...

Edge of Reason’s design direction balances classical elegance with modern minimalism, mirroring the melding of Enlightenment-era thought and contemporary art. The visual identity echoes the ...

THE Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will visit Basingstoke this summer. The concert at The Anvil on June 6 will feature Elgar's well-loved compositions. Dinis Sousa will lead the orchestra ...

But the Enlightenment’s “most dangerous woman”? Surely this grafts the preoccupations of a later era onto her eighteenth-century life. In her book about happiness, “danger” is a word ...