Readings
Completion requirements
R. J. W. Evans, „The Origins of Enlightenment in the Habsburg Lands” and „Culture and Authority in Central Europe 1683-1806”, in idem., Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs. Essays on Central Europe, c. 1683-1867 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 36-74.
Further readings (optional)
László Kontler, “Introduction: The Enlightenment in Central Europe?”, in Balázs Trencsényi and Michal Kopeček (eds.), Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe. Vol. I: Late Enlightenment (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2006), 33-44.