457411288 | Montesquieu | French aristocrat whose work "The Spirit of the Laws" claimed that the key to good government was the separation of powers. | 0 | |
457411289 | Denis Diderot | Philosophe whose great contribution to the Enlightenment was the twenty-eight-volume Encyclopedia. | 1 | |
457411290 | Emile | Book in which Jean-Jacques Rousseau explained his revolutionary theories on education. | 2 | |
457411291 | Mary Astell | English writer who advocated better educational opportunities for women and equality of the sexes in marriage. | 3 | |
457411292 | Vierzehnheiligen | Southern German pilgrimage church of the "fourteen saints" which illustrates the ideals of the Rococo style in architecture. | 4 | |
457411293 | Franz Joseph Haydn | One of the masters of "classical" music, he was a prolific composer of music both for the court and the public. | 5 | |
457411294 | Henry Fielding | A pioneer of the novel, he wrote about people without scruples who survived by their wits, including the character Tom Jones. | 6 | |
457411295 | Cesare Beccaria | Italian reformer who argued that punishment should be designed to deter crime, not just to punish criminals. | 7 | |
457411296 | Toleration Patent | Austrian Emperor Joseph II's decree of 1781 which granted religious toleration to minority faiths as well as to the majority Catholic population. | 8 | |
457411297 | Methodism | The Anglican movement led by John Wesley which eventually separated from the Church of England to become a new denomination. | 9 | |
457411298 | Jean Calas | Protestant defended by Voltaire when falsely accused of murder | 10 | |
457411299 | Deism | Belief in God as Creator without reference to Christian dogma. | 11 | |
457411300 | Emile (Who is emily?) | Rousseau's imaginary student in his book on education. | 12 | |
457411301 | Balthasar Neumann | Rococo architect who built the Würzburg Residenz | 13 | |
457411302 | J. S. Bach | Composer of the Baroque St. Matthew's Passion | 14 | |
457411303 | W. A. Mozart | Prodigy who wrote The Marriage of Figaro | 15 | |
457411304 | Tom Jones | Leading character in Henry Fielding's novel | 16 | |
457411305 | Spectator | Early magazine published by Addison and Steele. | 17 | |
457411306 | Jesuit | Expelled from France in 1764. | 18 | |
457411307 | Pietism | Form of Protestant mysticism that emphasized good works. | 19 | |
457411308 | Bernard de Fontenelle, the man who popularized the new scientific learning, was for fifty years secretary of the... | Royal Academy of Science | 20 | |
457411309 | The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century was characterized by the philosphes' ... | Rejection of traditional Christian dogma | 21 | |
457411310 | The French philosphes... | Fashioned a grand, rational system of thought. | 22 | |
457411311 | In his Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu argued for... | Balance between various branches of government. | 23 | |
457411312 | The form of religion calledDeism was based on a... | Newtonian view of the world as a machine created by God. | 24 | |
457411313 | Voltaire was perhaps best known for his criticism of... | Religious and social intolerance. | 25 | |
457411314 | Diderot's opinions on sexuality included... | The renunciation of chastity for the unmarried | 26 | |
457411315 | Cesare Beccaria challegned contemporary thought and practices concerning the... | Proper punishment of criminals. | 27 | |
457411316 | Identify the correct relationship between the social scientist and his work... | Francois Quesnay---tried to discover the natural economic laws that govern human society. | 28 | |
457411317 | In his Social Contract, Rousseau expressed the belief that... | A society achieves freedom by doing what is best for all. | 29 | |
457411318 | The rule of the eighteenth century salon was that... | Relations between men and women would be purely platonic. | 30 | |
457411319 | Rococo architecture was... | Best expressed in the buildings of Balthasar Neumann | 31 | |
457411320 | European music of the eighteenth century was exemplified by the... | Operas of Amadeus Mozart, who shifted the locus of music from Italy to Austria | 32 | |
457411321 | The historical literature of the eighteeenth century... | Paid careful attention to the economic and social causes of historical events. | 33 | |
457411322 | During the eighteenth century the British were pioneers in... | The novel as a vehicle for fiction. | 34 | |
457411323 | Most eighteenth-century European educational institutions were... | Elitist and geared to the needs of the upper class. | 35 | |
457411324 | A noticeable trend in eighteenth-century medicine was the... | Lessening of the older distinction between surgeon and physician. | 36 | |
457411325 | Literacy rates in late eighteenth-century France were... | Generally higher than in the century before. | 37 | |
457411326 | Because of its growing influence, the Society of Jesus was in 1773... | Dissolved by order of the pope. | 38 | |
457411327 | Most eighteenth-century Christians believed that the solution to the "Jewish problem" was... | Conversion to the Christian faith. | 39 |
Ch 17- An Age of Enlightenment Flashcards
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