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Enlightenment Ideas Spread. 1700-1800. Warm-Up . Censorship means limiting or preventing access to ideas and information. Why was the Prophet Mohammad censored on a South Park episode? Why do you think the U.S. government chose to censor certain images of the Gulf War?.
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Enlightenment Ideas Spread 1700-1800
Warm-Up Censorship means limiting or preventing access to ideas and information. Why was the Prophet Mohammad censored on a South Park episode? Why do you think the U.S. government chose to censor certain images of the Gulf War?
Writers Face Censorship Catholic Church feels threatened by Enlightenment thinkers Church censors philosophe thinking by banning and burning books. To avoid censorship, philosophesand writers disguised their ideas in fictional literature.
Ideas Spread in Salons Salons were parties where writers, philosophes, and artists shared ideas without feeling threatened by the Catholic Church. The first salons were poetry book reading clubs led by noblewomen in Paris.