WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What effect did the Renaissance have on the role of women?
A
They got higher positions in the government
B
They got lower positions in the government
C
All women were still stuck in the house
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The women of the Renaissance, like women of the Middle Ages, were denied all political rights and considered legally subject to their husbands. Women of all classes were expected to perform, first and foremost, the duties of housewife. Peasant women worked in the field alongside their husbands and ran the home.

Detailed explanation-2: -In England, Isabella Whitney became the first women to support herself by selling her own poetry. Meanwhile, bourgeois women in Europe benefited materially from the emergence of capitalism and colonialism. These European women had a Renaissance; the African women on the first transatlantic slave trips did not.

Detailed explanation-3: -First a woman was a daughter and then a wife, mother, or widow. In contrast, male roles were generally defined by social position or occupation-merchant, knight, priest, peasant, barrel maker, weaver, and so on. Female roles were more sharply defined in upper-class society than in peasant society.

Detailed explanation-4: -A renaissance man was a well-educated gentleman with cultural elegance and courage, as well as an understanding of the arts and sciences. He talks and writes clearly and truthfully to his words. A Renaissance lady, on the other hand, was expected to marry well, be faithful to her husband, and bear sons.

Detailed explanation-5: -Word forms: Renaissance women plural. countable noun. If you describe a woman as a Renaissance woman, you mean that she has a wide range of abilities and interests, especially in the arts and sciences.

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