Enlightenment Ideas

1. Late 1700's radical ideas spread to peasant villages

2. Despots

2.1. Frederick II attempts reform

2.2. Joseph II continues reform

2.3. Catherine the Great -> studies philosophes works

3. Lives of majority

3.1. Most Europeans untouched by either courtly or middle class culture

4. Art and literature

4.1. Composers inspired

4.1.1. Bach

4.1.2. Haydn

4.1.3. Handel

4.1.4. Mozart

4.2. Louis XIV ->Louis XV less formal

4.3. Outpour of novels

5. Challenge Society

5.1. Writers face censorship

5.2. Salons spread ideas