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Chapter 6 Section3
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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/ http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/
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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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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.
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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.
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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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