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THE ENLIGHTENMENT SPREADSChapter 6 Section3
A world of ideas
Salons- Large drawing rooms where hostesses held regular social gatherings. Enlightenment ideas spread at these gatherings.
Diderot Published large books with ideas from the
leading scholars of Europe. Called it Encyclopedia Was banned but he continued to publish it
anyways. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/
New Artistic Styles
Baroque Grand, ornate design. 1600- early 1700s. If it ain’t Baroque don’t fix it. – history joke.
Neoclassical New classical Simple and elegant, borrowed themes from
ancient Greece and Rome.
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Music and Literature
Baroque Handel and Bach Dramatic Organ and Choral Music
Neoclassical Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart Lighter more elegant style known as classical
Writers Began writing novels.
Composers
Enlightenment and Monarchy
Enlightened Despots Monarchs who embraced the Enlightenment
and made reforms Fredrick the Great
Prussian King Granted religious freedoms, reduced
censorship, improved education, reformed the justice system and abolished the use of torture
Thought serfdom was wrong but didn’t get rid of it b/c he needed the support of wealthy landowners.
Enlightenment and the Monarchy Joseph II
Austrian King Introduced legal reforms, freedom of the press,
freedom of worship, abolished serfdom and ordered that peasants be paid in cash.
Most reforms undone after his death. Catherine the Great
Russian Empress Pen pal w/ Voltaire Has commission that looks into Russian law reform,
religious toleration, and abolition of torture and capital punishment
Doesn’t follow through with any of it After peasant revolt in 1773, she realizes she needs
the nobles so no longer wants an end to serfdom.
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