Enlightenment Ideas Spread
by Se Rin Lee
1. Salons helped ideas spread about literature, the arts, and the sciences, as well as philosophy
2. Louis XIV art and architecture, Greek/Roman style or baroque, vivid and large scale, glorified historical battles
3. Baroque to rocco style, classical music
4. Johann Sebastian Bach, violin and harpsicord sonatas/ Handel/ Haydn/ Mozart
5. Enlightened despots, political and social change
6. Frederick the Great, Prussia, 1740 to 1786, duty to work for common good, free press, reduce torture, religious tolerance
7. Joseph II, radical despot, ended censorship, religious quality for Protestants and Jews, tried to Bring Catholic Church under royal control, abolished serfdom
8. Paris, France, center, across Europe
9. Diderot's Encyclopedia, reform necessary for just society,
10. Enlightenment thinkers opposed divine right theory, wanted social justice
11. war of censorship, banned and burned books, writers then disguised books as works of fiction
12. Louis XV- rocco style, moved away from religion, lighter, more elegant
13. Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, philosophes, Voltaire: enemies of man: superstition, fanaticism, ignorance, trickery, Catherine believed in equality and liberty, expanded empire, still did not intend to give up power
