Western Civilization - History Of European Society

360 Chapter 19 territories in eastern Europe. Thus, in 1714 Vienna con- trolled lands from Brussels in the west to Milan in the ...

The Political Evolution of the Old Regime, 1715–89 361 grief: In a world of arranged, loveless marriages Maria Theresa had been ...

362 Chapter 19 (1778). After a rebellion by Bohemian peasants in 1775, another imperial decree converted the detested robot into ...

The Political Evolution of the Old Regime, 1715–89 363 Joseph II’s legal reforms came in a series of decrees in the 1780s, chief ...

364 Chapter 19 him, and considered executing him—became Frederick “the Great” partly because he inherited the strong state that ...

The Political Evolution of the Old Regime, 1715–89 365 French literature and music were more interesting (see illustration 19.5) ...

366 Chapter 19 “the first servant of the state.” He insisted upon daily written reports from his ministries and poured over them ...

The Political Evolution of the Old Regime, 1715–89 367 followed Voltaire’s footsteps to Berlin with high hopes, he left protesti ...

368 Chapter 19 gave them the right to send troublesome peasants to Siberia. Catherine’s shrewd politics solidified her despotic ...

The Political Evolution of the Old Regime, 1715–89 369 tions (more than one thousand of them from free peas- ants), held more th ...

CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. High Culture: From the Baroque to the Classical A. Popular Culture in the Eighteenth Century ...

The Culture of Old Regime Europe371 ornately decorated, the extravagantly expressed. Whether looking at the energetic statues of ...

372Chapter 20 music: The development of the sonata, the symphony, the string quartet, and the concerto so changed musical compos ...

The Culture of Old Regime Europe373 open houses for intellectuals, and his daughter, Dorothea von Schlegel, built on this habit ...

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Religion and Eighteenth-Century Culture Christianity stood at the center of European culture in the eighteenth c ...

The Culture of Old Regime Europe375 passed diversity. Catholicism remained united by the authority of the pope and by the hierar ...

376Chapter 20 Corsica has found that a population of 220,000 people sustained sixty-five monasteries. The situation was dra- mat ...

The Culture of Old Regime Europe377 learned academies, scientific laboratories and observa- tories, libraries, philosophic journ ...

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The Culture of Old Regime Europe379 he translated as “Have the courage to use your own reason!” The Enlightenment developed from ...