disguising their ideas as fiction
Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they challenged the old order.
They waged a war of censorship. They banned and burned books and imprisoned writers.
Monarchs censored Enlightenment writers because the ideas promoted by these writers often challenged the traditional authority of the monarchy and the Church. Monarchs saw these ideas as a threat to their power and control over society. Censorship was a way for them to maintain their authority and suppress dissenting views.
They waged a war of censorship. They banned and burned books and imprisoned writers.
Writers, musicians, and artists embraced the periods of enlightenment and the Renaissance.
Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Daniel Defoe were the three popular writers of the enlightenment.
Governments censored publications, banned certain books, and punished those who promoted Enlightenment ideas. Religious authorities also condemned these ideas as heretical and sought to suppress them through censorship and persecution. Universities and established institutions worked to discredit Enlightenment thinkers and their ideas to maintain their influence and power.
Censorship was an impact of the Enlightenment because Voltaire, who was a philosophe during the Enlightenment, created the ideas of Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion. Because of these ideas, the European monarchs later reduced censorship and persecution.
B. Writers of the Enlightenment era.
Those opposed to Enlightenment ideas often censored publications, persecuted intellectuals, and suppressed dissenting voices to stop the spread of information. They used tactics such as book banning, imprisonment of thinkers, and controlling education to limit the influence of Enlightenment principles.
Enlightenment.
People are basically evil.