History 1265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Caspar David Friedrich, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Age Of Enlightenment
28 Sep 2016
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We owe many things to the french revolution: ideas of liberty and freedom, designation of left and right as the basic division in political life. Some increased nationalism in opposition to the french. Revolution: intellectuals were enthusiastic about this new era (herder, holderlin, wieland, tieck, Paris) and thus any revolution could be put down. By the time the dust has settled, the holy roman empire is gone. Hundreds of sovereignties ends up in the end as the confederation of the rhine (berg, westphalia, saxony, baden, wurttemburg), prussia, austria, and more. Reform: austria is reduced, prussia is reduced to a rump (what is a rump? lol, parts of germany are directly annexed to france, subject to the full force of french social engineering (abolition of serfdom, guilds, and. Jewish discrimination: french do what the rulers had wanted to do trim, kingdom of westphalia and the grand duchy of berg led by family members of.
