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Enlightenment Ideas Spread

Enlightenment Ideas Spread. Objective: SWBAT identify the roles that censorship and salons played in the spread of new ideas. Do Now 12/ 12/ 12. Grab test off the table – you’ll have the first 5 minutes to look over your answers Pick up guided notes . New Ideas Challenge Society.

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Enlightenment Ideas Spread

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  1. Enlightenment Ideas Spread Objective: SWBAT identify the roles that censorship and salons played in the spread of new ideas

  2. Do Now 12/12/12 • Grab test off the table – you’ll have the first 5 minutes to look over your answers • Pick up guided notes

  3. New Ideas Challenge Society • Prior to Enlightenment people accepted the ideas of • divine right, • strict class system, • & belief in heavenly reward for earthly suffering • Educated people read Diderot’s encyclopedia • More people saw that reform was necessary • A just society should ensure social justice and happiness • Not everyone agreed with these new ideas

  4. Writers Face Censorship • church and government authorities felt they had a sacred duty to defend the old order (GOD) • Waged a war = censorship • restricted access to ideas and information • banned and burned books  imprisoned writers • Voltaire (Bastille)

  5. Persian Letters • To avoid censorship writers disguised work as fiction • Persian Letters • Montesquieu • two fictional characters • Usbekand Rica • mocked French society

  6. Writers Face Censorship • Voltaire • Candide 1759: • travels across Europe, the Americas and the Middle East • looking for the “best of all possible worlds” • Used this tale to expose the corruption and hypocrisy of European Society

  7. Ideas Spread in Salons • Salons informal social gatherings • writers, artists, philosophes, & others exchanged ideas • 1600s noble women in Paris – poetry readings • 1700s middle class women • allowed middle class citizens to meet with nobility on an equal level to discuss & spread Enlightenment ideas

  8. Salons • Madame Geoffrin Rue St. Honore • Brought together best and brightest • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for her guests

  9. Composers • Classical music • Ballets & operas  opera houses formed across Europe • Growing middle class could now afford to pay for concerts

  10. Composers • Johann Sebastian Bach – religious works • Organ and choirs • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Child prodigy – developed new styles • Died at 35 in poverty

  11. Bach Symphony 40 Requiem Marriage of Figero

  12. Enlightened Despots • Frederick the Great  Prussia 1740-1786 • “first servant of the state” • Work for the common good

  13. Enlightened Despots • Catherine the Great  Russia • Equality and liberty • Abolished torture and established religious tolerance

  14. Enlightened Despots • Joseph II  Austria • Religious equality • Ended censorship  free press • Abolished serfdom • All ended after his death

  15. Exit Ticket How did censorship and the emergence of salons play a role in spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment?

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