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Chapter 6.3 – Spread of Enlightenment Ideas Web/ Outline
- Method of Idea circulation
- Basic Ideas
- Books
- Letters
- In-person Visits
- Magazine Articles
- Salons
- Social events
- Paris
- Philosophes gathered to share ideas
- And to enjoy performances8u
- most influential hostess
- woman
- Diderot’s Encyclopedia
- Denis Diderot
- Many Philosophes contributed
- Shut down by gov and Church
- But later restarted with permission
- Middle Class
- Could now afford arts
- Helped arts grow
- Newspapers
- Pamphlets
- Political songs
- Could now afford arts
- Basic Ideas
- Arts and Literature
- Middle class could now afford
- Was Baroque
- Very fancy, ornate
- Buildings (Versailles)
- Music (Bach and Handel)
- dramatic organ and choral music
- artists
- rich in color, detail, and ornate imagery
- Now neoclassical (for Music = Classical)
- Simple and elegant
- Borrowed much from Greeks and Romans
- Music
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- developed sonata and symphony
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- composed music at age 5
- operas set new standards for elegance and originality
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- piano music
- string quartets
- stirring symphonies
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Advent of the Novel
- Was a lengthy work of prose fiction in everyday language
- Popular with middle class
- Some written by women
- Samuel Richardson
- Pamela
- 1st novel in English
- Henry Fielding
- Tom Jones
- Daniel Defoe
- Robinson Crusoe
- The Monarchy
- Enlightenment ideas found themselves to monarchs
- Some adopted these ideas, but none gave up power and most tried not to alienate their base of the aristocracy
- Enlightened deposits (rulers) known as
- Wanted to make their country stronger and make their rule more effective
- Frederick the Great
- Was the king of Prussia
- Granted religious freedoms, reduced censorship, and improved education
- Committed to being king
- Said he was “first servant of the state” not “I am the state” like Louis XIV
- purpose was to help grow and improve the country, not the country existed to make the monarch’s life better
- said was against serfdom, but didn’t do anything about it to not alienate his base
- Joseph II
- Ruler of Austria
- Textbook called most “radical royal reformer”
- Legal reforms and freedom of the press
- Freedom or worship (Protestants, Orthodox Christians, and Jews)
- Abolished serfdom
- peasants must be paid with cash
- nobles DID NOT like
- most changes reverted after death
- Catherine the Great
- Forced marriage to mentally instable Russian king
- She removed of him and became the ruler herself
- Reviewed laws
- Liked ideas of Philosophes
- Wanted to have religious tolerance, and abolish torture and capital punishment, but this didn’t happen
- Wanted to end serfdom, but serf revolt changed her mind and she gave absolute power over them to landowners
- Expanded Russian empire to Black Sea and allowed trade to Mediterranean
- Took over part of Poland
- Further enlarged Russia during rule, but didn’t make many actually Enlightenment changes
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