HIST1094 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Michel De Montaigne, Tennis Court Oath, French First Republic
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Primary source - written during the time. Secondary source - written at some other time after. After readings, google the author to figure out their angle. The age of revolution rural/agrarian - capitalist agriculture o: class structure. Peasants are below them-->hard to go from peasant to landlord. Merchants gained more power with global trade-->more wealth: aristocrats fancied the merchants later. Dare to know - kant"s motto for the enlightenment-->big proponent of the. Republic of letters - tied together a sense of kdnfgkjsdfgkjdfkvfd. Ppopular enlightment writing: science and travel. Physicists and mathematics like newton, leibniz and rene descartes described he world working according to orderly, mathematical, rational principles. Travel writers and biologists liek michel de montaigne and louis buffon as inhabited by people essentially similar to european readers: novels. Rise in the popularity of secular novels--stories ona human scale--instead of religious or rpic works (often explicit) sex-driven farces. Allowed contemporary people to look at themselves and understadn the world.
