Sentence examples for until the enlightenment from inspiring English sources

Retranslated into Latin, this treatise was a standard medical reference until the Enlightenment.

Until the Enlightenment, it was widely assumed that it was possible to make lower forms of life.

It is perhaps a sign of the general insignificance of the surviving guilds that they evoked surprisingly little serious criticism until the Enlightenment of the 18th century.

Feudalism continued for 700 years after the Battle of Hastings until the Enlightenment, a revolution in thought and society that forms the foundation of our modern world.

Long after stonemasons built Ely Cathedral, maybe until the Enlightenment, perhaps until the publication of On the Origin of Species, believers could reassure themselves that the wisest thinkers of their time believed in the divine.

Indeed, it mirrors what the western world was like for most of its history, until the Enlightenment – a society in which sex, like religion, was not private but public.

Virtue ethics' founding fathers are Plato and, more particularly Aristotle (its roots in Chinese philosophy are even more ancient) and it persisted as the dominant approach in Western moral philosophy until at least the Enlightenment.

With pragmatism and panache, the Romans erected a majestic metropolis whose inhabitants enjoyed a quality of life that would be unequaled until the end of the Enlightenment.

Periodic persecutions of Jews in western Europe continued until the late 18th century, when the Enlightenment changed their position, at least in the West.

This book refutes such generalisations chapter by chapter and with copious illustrations, taking us through European history from the Greeks and Romans, via the Middle Ages, Renaissance and the Enlightenment, until the present day.

Western atheism has its roots in pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, but did not emerge as a distinct world-view until the late Enlightenment.