Enlightenment Ideas Spread Objective: SWBAT identify the roles that censorship and salons played in the spread of new ideas

Do Now 12/12/12 Grab test off the table – you’ll have the first 5 minutes to look over your answers Pick up guided notes

New Ideas Challenge Society Prior to Enlightenment people accepted the ideas of divine right, strict class system, & belief in heavenly reward for earthly suffering Educated people read Diderot’s encyclopedia More people saw that reform was necessary A just society should ensure social justice and happiness Not everyone agreed with these new ideas

Writers Face Censorship church and government authorities felt they had a sacred duty to defend the old order (GOD) Waged a war = censorship restricted access to ideas and information banned and burned books  imprisoned writers Voltaire (Bastille)

Persian Letters To avoid censorship writers disguised work as fiction Montesquieu two fictional characters Usbek and Rica mocked French society

Writers Face Censorship Voltaire Candide 1759: travels across Europe, the Americas and the Middle East looking for the “best of all possible worlds” Used this tale to expose the corruption and hypocrisy of European Society

Ideas Spread in Salons Salons informal social gatherings writers, artists, philosophes, & others exchanged ideas 1600s noble women in Paris – poetry readings 1700s middle class women allowed middle class citizens to meet with nobility on an equal level to discuss & spread Enlightenment ideas

Salons Madame Geoffrin  Rue St. Honore Brought together best and brightest Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played for her guests

Composers Classical music Ballets & operas  opera houses formed across Europe Growing middle class could now afford to pay for concerts

Composers Johann Sebastian Bach – religious works Organ and choirs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Child prodigy – developed new styles Died at 35 in poverty

Bach Symphony 40 Requiem Marriage of Figero

Enlightened Despots Frederick the Great  Prussia 1740-1786 “first servant of the state” Work for the common good

Enlightened Despots Catherine the Great  Russia Equality and liberty Abolished torture and established religious tolerance

Enlightened Despots Joseph II  Austria Religious equality Ended censorship  free press Abolished serfdom All ended after his death

Exit Ticket How did censorship and the emergence of salons play a role in spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment?