In this episode, we’ll see how governments in the late 18th century reacted to a different kind of terror: The spread of revolutionary ideas and practices that shook the established order to the ground.
After a brief detour into the present on our last episode, we return to the Enlightenment in 18th century Europe, as rationality and secularization sweep through the continent turning tradition and authority upside down.
Why have kings, emperors, and governments killed and imprisoned people to shut them up? And why have countless people risked death and imprisonment to express their beliefs?
