Chapter 6 Section3

 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. 

 Baroque  Grand, ornate design.  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.

 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.

 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.

 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.