Son of an abusive father, Frederick II blossomed when he took the throne. He attracted the great thinkers of Europe to his court while establishing Prussia as a dominant military power.

"You were singing at twilight/With your fingers moving/And I'd heard the same song in a dream," sings Phil Elverum on "Huge ...

I’m going to call it the “Endarkenment” because it rises, like an accusing specter, out of the corpse of the fallen Enlightenment. The Endarkenment is the pathological disorientation that convulses a ...

Phil Elverum’s first Mount Eerie album in five years feels like a culmination of his work over the past 25 years, making room ...

Phil Elverum's new album as Mount Eerie is a deeply personal, idiosyncratic journey that doesn’t always seem to welcome onlookers.

Empress Josephine, the wife of Napoleon, once told her daughter how much she hated sleeping in Marie Antoinette’s old bedroom ...

How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And what debt do they owe to scholars of the previous era? Focusing on the career of German polymath Johann Daniel Major ...

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

Fitzpatrick Hanly, Margaret Ann 2017. Geschwisterrivalität, Loslösung und Entwicklungsprozesse in Jane Austens »Verstand und Gefühl«. PSYCHE, Vol. 71, Issue. 09 ...

Nearby, Baixa stands as a testament to Enlightenment ideas with its grid layout ... Palacio das Especiarias, and Hotel Avenida Palace. The LX Boutique Hotel, located just 0.42 miles from the city ...