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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.