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

2. To what extent are women equal to men in today’s society?
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 Courtier recommends a Humanist education for both genders
Also: women for man’s comfort, contentment and for family lines

4. **Generally, women did not work, and were not allowed in Politics**
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. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. Did Women have a Renaissance?

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

12. 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 were the major differences between the Renaissance in Italy and the Renaissance in the North?
What are the lasting impacts of the Renaissance? (p. 26)