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.

Without rejecting established architectural tradition, the Adam brothers were modernists, free from dogmatic adherence to a particular style.Architecture has tended to be left out of the ...

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This was due at least in part to the ...

Victims of their own success in the postwar era of well-recorded sound, the Brandenburg concertos first arrived in the ears ...

Ronnie O'Sullivan, Mark Williams and John Higgins are on course to rewrite the history books, with age no barrier to the sweet smell of success.