The Renaissance: The Role Of Women
The role of a woman
The renaissance. A period of prosperity and upmost extravagance where the nobles rule, the peasants drool and men achieve greatness. Women, on the other hand, led an inferior life to men because of their smaller bone structure which was believed that they were weaker and less intelligent than men. Because of this belief, they led a hard and exhausting life. In the following paragraphs, I shall prove, thanks to multiple examples, their hard and stressful life as a wife, a mother and a widow. Wives led a hard life. They were treated as tools rather than humans. One of the reasons of them having led a hard life is the housework. The home was the responsibility of the women. The lower class wives had to clean the house, tend to the children, and create some clothes…They also had to carry water from nearby streams to their home in large jugs and even do their laundry in them. This task could also become very dangerous since many women did not know how to swim. Also, another task of the lower class women was to cook for her family. Since they have urban homes, they could not have cooked bread or butcher meat so they had to buy their meat and bread every day which could get really tiring. It could also get really get dangerous when they prepare the food with an oven since they have a small house. At home, a couple of upper class spouse have to make their house a presentable and happy place for their husband. Their responsibility was normal housework such as laundry, cooking and cleaning. But other nobles had to do none of these tasks since they were all accomplished by their servants. Since the wives had nannies for their children, with all this free time on their hand, they practiced needlepoint or embroidery at …show more content…
Women in the renaissance. Ed. Kathy M. St Catherines: Crabtree Publishing Company,1983.Print
SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Italian Renaissance (1330-1550).” SparkNotes LLC. n.d..Web. 6
The renaissance. A period of prosperity and upmost extravagance where the nobles rule, the peasants drool and men achieve greatness. Women, on the other hand, led an inferior life to men because of their smaller bone structure which was believed that they were weaker and less intelligent than men. Because of this belief, they led a hard and exhausting life. In the following paragraphs, I shall prove, thanks to multiple examples, their hard and stressful life as a wife, a mother and a widow. Wives led a hard life. They were treated as tools rather than humans. One of the reasons of them having led a hard life is the housework. The home was the responsibility of the women. The lower class wives had to clean the house, tend to the children, and create some clothes…They also had to carry water from nearby streams to their home in large jugs and even do their laundry in them. This task could also become very dangerous since many women did not know how to swim. Also, another task of the lower class women was to cook for her family. Since they have urban homes, they could not have cooked bread or butcher meat so they had to buy their meat and bread every day which could get really tiring. It could also get really get dangerous when they prepare the food with an oven since they have a small house. At home, a couple of upper class spouse have to make their house a presentable and happy place for their husband. Their responsibility was normal housework such as laundry, cooking and cleaning. But other nobles had to do none of these tasks since they were all accomplished by their servants. Since the wives had nannies for their children, with all this free time on their hand, they practiced needlepoint or embroidery at …show more content…
Women in the renaissance. Ed. Kathy M. St Catherines: Crabtree Publishing Company,1983.Print
SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Italian Renaissance (1330-1550).” SparkNotes LLC. n.d..Web. 6