His early work also attacks the positivists of the Enlightenment era, thereby streghtening the case against utopian optimism.

Enlightenment era religious commentary was a response to the preceding century of religious conflict in Europe, especially the Thirty Years' War.

Freemasons in continental Europe during the Enlightenment era were accused of atheism.

Their victories filled secularists with dismay; this was not the tamed, decorous, privatized faith of the Enlightenment era.

The Enlightenment era brought with it greater tolerance and spread the desire to educate the uneducated.

Developing during the Enlightenment era, Renaissance humanism was an intellectual movement spread across Europe.

National scientific societies were founded throughout the Enlightenment era in the urban hotbeds of scientific development across Europe.

One of the most important developments that the Enlightenment era brought to the discipline of science was its popularization.

During the Enlightenment era, women were excluded from scientific societies, universities and learned professions.

During the Enlightenment era, the economic situation of Valenciennes was in decline until the discovery of coal.