*WOMEN AND THE RENAISSANCE

*THE NORTHERN EXPERIENCE

The Renaissance: Different Perspectives

Minds-OnTO 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

Little or no Education

Upper class women Literate

Castiglione’s The Courtier recommends a Humanist education for both genders Also: women for man’s comfort, contentment and

for family lines

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**

Sofonisba Anguissola (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

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”)

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

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.

Did Women have a

Renaissance?

BRITAIN, GERMANY, FRANCE, HOLLAND

15 T H CENTURY

The Renaissance in the North

Desiderius Erasmus

Thomas More

Haberman, Page 24-26 (all)

Define Important terms/people:

1. Christian Humanism2. Girolamo Savonarola (french)3. Dogma

1. What were the major differences between the Renaissance in Italy and the Renaissance in the North?

2. What are the lasting impacts of the Renaissance? (p. 26)

4. Thomas More• Utopia

5. Desiderius Erasmus• Praise of Folly

QUESTIONS: