the intellectual origins of the French Revolution; intellectual encounters with the New World; the concept of a Counter-Enlightenment; and the move from a private to a public sphere of cultural ...

It was here, on July 14, 1789, that revolutionaries stormed the infamous Bastille prison, a symbol of the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchy. Today, the fortress is no more, but the square remains a ...

Adamantios Korais was one of the most important figures of the Modern Greek Enlightenment and the Greek intellectual struggle ...

In their modern forms they came about as a result of two events, the American Revolution in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. The French Revolution would have an enormous impact in Ireland ...

We now associate these thinkers with the Age of Enlightenment, a period of history that led to the French Revolution and the American War of Independence. Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando ...

Later, he greatly influenced the French Revolution. His book, 'The Rights of Man' (1791), was a guide to ideas of enlightenment and stimulated people worldwide. He died age 72 in New York on 8 ...