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The Renaissance: Different Perspectives

The Renaissance: Different Perspectives. *Women and The renaissance *The Northern Experience. Minds-On. To what extent are women equal to men in today’s society? Think of… Social Political Economic Education. Study of History of Women started 1970s. Women in the Renaissance. Education

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The Renaissance: Different Perspectives

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  1. The Renaissance: Different Perspectives *Women and The renaissance *The Northern Experience

  2. Minds-On To what extent are women equal to men in today’s society? Think of… • Social • Political • Economic • Education Study of History of Women started 1970s

  3. Women in the Renaissance Education • Little or no Education • Upper class women Literate • Castiglione’s The Courtierrecommends a Humanist education for both genders • Also: women for man’s comfort, contentment and for family lines

  4. Women as a reflection of family • Appearance, Chastity, Charm • Under male authority • In the House • New “nuclear family” = more power in house, but less outside (Domestic vs. Public) • Taught to manage the house and serve men • Managed family finances and children **Generally, women did not work, and were not allowed in Politics**

  5. SofonisbaAnguissola (1532-1625) Father took Castiglione’s advice and educated all daughters (Noble family, Italy) First famous female artist throughout Europe Painting, Music, Literature, Latin Portraits “…seem to breathe, and look alive” Couldn’t study anatomy or paint from life

  6. Christine de Pisan (1363-1424) • The first Feminist • Educated in Paris • The Book of Three Virtues • Survival manual for Renaissance Women • The Book of The City of Ladies • DOCUMENT: PAGE 2-5, ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-4 • (includes Modesta dal Pozzo “Women’s Worth”)

  7. Did Women have a Renaissance? • Joan Kelly-Gadol • Feminist insight • Events in History that further development of men have opposite effect on women • Argues women did NOT have a Renaissance • Women ‘imprisoned in their own homes’ during the Renaissance • Art and literature of the Renaissance emphasizes female dependence, male domination; • Women as evil beings

  8. Excerpt “Renaissance ideas on love and manners… expressed this new subordination of women to the interests of husbands and male-dominated [family] groups and served to justify the removal of women from an “unladylike” position of power and… independence. All the Advances of Renaissance Italy… worked to mold the noblewoman into an aesthetic object: decorous, chaste and doubly dependent on her husband as well as the prince.” Haberman, Arthur, and Adrian Shubert. The West and The World. Toronto: Gage Learning Corporation, 2002, 17.

  9. Did Women have a Renaissance?

  10. The Renaissance in the North Britain, Germany, France, Holland 15th Century Thomas More Desiderius Erasmus

  11. Haberman, Page 24-26 (all) • Define Important terms/people: 1. Christian Humanism 2. Girolamo Savonarola (french) 3. Dogma • 4. Thomas More • Utopia • 5. Desiderius Erasmus • Praise of Folly QUESTIONS: • What werethe major differences between the Renaissance in Italy and the Renaissance in the North? • What are the lasting impacts of the Renaissance? (p. 26)

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