Age of Enlightenment: Misc

the Hollandsche Spectator, inspired by the British Spectator, was one of the most important developments in Dutch literature during the Enlightenment period?
while most Enlightenment scholars criticized the Byzantine system of the Eastern Roman Empire, Konstantin Leontiev, a scholar from the Russian Empire praised it for the very same reasons?
Friar Camilo Henríquez (pictured), a founding father of Chile and editor of Chile's first newspaper, was interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition for possessing banned Enlightenment philosophy, including books by Rousseau and Mercier?
Justus van Effen has been recognized as one of the most important Dutch language writers of the eighteenth century and an influential figure of the Dutch Enlightenment?
Gazette d'Amsterdam was one of the most important European newspapers of the Enlightenment period?
Courier du Bas-Rhin, one of the leading European papers of the late 18th century Enlightenment period, and the main rivals of the Gazette de Leyde, was significantly controlled by the Prussian government?

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The Age of Enlightenment was a period that was experienced by the people of Bajor and was given to their equivalent of the reinassance.

The Jas clan held the Naghai Keep from this age. (DS9 novel: Day of the Vipers)

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