History of European Ideas, Vol. 49, Issue. 2, p. 267. This innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming ...

Exploring the challenges to and adaptations within common law thinking in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the book reveals that the common law played a much wider role ...

An intellectual movement which began in England in the seventeenth century, but then spread to have eventual influence over all sections of the world. The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an ...

The European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century is conventionally ... and texts and on the impact of enlightened ideas in particular countries, notably England, France, Prussia, Russia and the ...

Nathan Gorelick traces literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins during the 17th and 18th centuries.

In “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman ... Voltaire had spent two years in England, where he attended Newton’s funeral ...

Châtelet’s scientific contributions were appreciated by some, then forgotten by all. But redeeming her as a mind shouldn’t undermine her as a woman.

As the Queen prepares to turn 90, we ask three nonagenarians for the lessons learnt from their rich and accomplished lives Diana Armfield (pictured above), 95, artist and member of the Royal ...

Adam Smith, a rising figure of the new Scottish Enlightenment, studies the economics and morals that drive this new trade. Video: A history of Scotland: The Price of Progress.

Hailed as the first global conflict, Britain secures control of huge colonial territories in the Americas. Video: A history of Scotland: The Price of Progress.