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Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century is a 2003 book edited by Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell. Libertine Enlightenment...

A libertine is a person questioning and challenging most moral principles, such as responsibility or sexual restraints, and will often declare these traits...

Le Libertin (The Libertine) is a French comedy film directed by Gabriel Aghion and released in 2000. It is an adaptation of a 1997 play by Éric-Emmanuel...

2 December 1814) was a French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes...

one must have the notion of God and reject it." In the period of the Enlightenment, avowed and open atheism was made possible by the advance of religious...

narrative) with an orgy, in which Pope Pius is portrayed as a secret libertine. While discussing murder, Braschi notes that cruelty is essential to pleasure...

the French Enlightenment. University of Virginia Press. pp. 65–88. ISBN 9780813918600. Feher, Michel (1997). "Ways of the World". The libertine reader: eroticism...

friend, in The Crown. In 2004, Burke had his first cinema part in The Libertine. In 2007, he played an aspiring filmmaker who ends up directing a porn...

du soleil (1992). The film, presenting libertine and pagan Lully as a natural ally of the early Enlightenment figure Louis XIV of France in his conflicts...

giving rise to the Renaissance humanism movement. During the Age of Enlightenment, humanistic values were reinforced by advances in science and technology...

Ferreira, Breno Ferraz Leal (2014). "Um Iluminismo libertino" [A Libertine Enlightenment]. Topoi (Rio de Janeiro) (in Portuguese). 15 (29): 679–684. doi:10...

(/vɒlˈtɛər, voʊl-/; also US: /vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for...

Ferreira, Breno Ferraz Leal (2014). "Um Iluminismo libertino" [A libertine Enlightenment]. Topoi (Rio J.) (in Portuguese). 15 (29): 679–684. doi:10...

employs it particularly to characterize...a dissoluteness, an excess". Libertine literature such as those by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester evoked...

Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. Diderot initially studied philosophy at a Jesuit college, then considered...

novel, histories, the gothic novel and the libertine novel. 18th century Europe started in the Age of Enlightenment and gradually moved towards Romanticism...

Abbé T., and spies on them on multiple occasions, while they discuss libertine political and religious philosophy just before they engage in, and sometimes...

not published until 1899). John Wilmot, the seventeenth-century English libertine, published his poem Signor Dildo in 1673. During the Parliamentary session...

commune in Cefalù, Sicily where he lived with various followers. His libertine lifestyle led to denunciations in the British press, and the Italian government...

anarchy. The Scottish Quaker Robert Barclay also denounced the "anarchy" of libertines such as the Ranters. In contrast, radical Protestants such as the Diggers...