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[https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/what-enlightenment-and-how-did-it-transform-politics by CFR Education 1/9/25] | [https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/what-enlightenment-and-how-did-it-transform-politics by CFR Education 1/9/25] | ||
In 1627, officials in Cologne, Germany, accused Katharina Henot—a local postmaster and influential socialite—of witchcraft. They claimed she wielded magic and worked with the devil. The officials even accused Henot of infesting a local nunnery with a plague of caterpillars. For these alleged crimes, she was repeatedly tortured and publicly executed. | In 1627, officials in Cologne, Germany, accused Katharina Henot—a local postmaster and influential socialite—of witchcraft. They claimed she wielded magic and worked with the devil. The officials even accused Henot of infesting a local nunnery with a plague of caterpillars. For these alleged crimes, she was repeatedly tortured and publicly executed. | ||
=====The Enlightenment===== | |||
[https://www.oerproject.com/en/oer-materials/oer-media/html-articles/origins/unit7/the-enlightenment by Amy Elizabeth Robinson 1726-1783 OER Enlightenment] | |||
Between the late seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries, there was a period of rapid intellectual change that came to be known as the Enlightenment. Thinkers, writers, artists, political leaders, and also new groups of “ordinary” people drove this major cultural and intellectual movement. They believed they were finally shining the “light” of reason on the natural and human worlds. In 1784, German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote that an “enlightened” understanding should start with the command: “Dare to know!” | |||
