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The Enlightenment spreads

The Enlightenment spreads. Chapter 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.

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The Enlightenment spreads

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  1. The Enlightenment spreads Chapter 6 Section3

  2. 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/

  3. 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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  13. 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.

  14. Composers

  15. 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.

  16. 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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