| title: | Nobility, Clergy, and the Enlightenment: The Experience of Eighteenth Century Russian Baltic Provinces |
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| reg no: | ETF6894 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
6.1. History (incl. Archeology) 6.5. Art history and criticism |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | Tallinna Ülikooli Ajaloo Instituut |
| head of project: | Ants Hein |
| duration: | 01.01.2006 - 31.12.2009 |
| description: | The project is to be a logical continuation for the research of both of the applicants in the 18th century Baltic German culture. As we know, the most influential socio-cultural movement of the century, and so in the Baltic region, was the Enlightenment that was on the mental background of the majority of the social changes of the period like the continuous secularisation of the society, advancements in education and social maintenance, the emergence of prerequisites for the abolishment of serfdom, etc. Developing in correlation with the changes in Europe, especially those in Germany, the Enlightenment here, however, had a series of its peculiarities, and unlike Western Europe, its effect lasted longer reaching as far as even the mid-19th century to influence by that time the then national movements of both Estonia and Latvia. Although the Baltic Enlightenment has been treated is a number of studies, several of its aspects have been almost neglected so far. In this respect the applicants have specified their respective fields of research centring on the topics least studied by previous scholars and on the trends parallel to and opposing the Enlightenment. Thus, Indrek Jürjo is planning to concentrate on the spread of Enlightenment ideas among clergymen and schoolmasters with emphasis on the changes in the educational system; Ants Hein, at that, follows the developments in the culture of the nobility relating it to, for example, the building boom that affected the Baltic estates in the second half of the 18th century. The project would enable the applicants to document – on the basis of the seldom or never used archival evidence – the cultural contacts and communication systems of the intelligentsia and the noblemen of the Baltic region. This would enable to map the mental disposition and the philosophy of the less known representatives of the Enlightenment. As in aspects it would be a project of art history, it has to do with the preservation of the traditional cultural milieu and bearing on the problems of cultural ecology, and what is more – at least part of its results can be later used in the restoration of the manor ensembles. |
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Ants Hein | Tallinna Ülikooli Ajaloo Instituut | ||
| 2. | Indrek Jürjo | |||