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GDaniotti - Women in English Renaissance
by - (2009-11-27)
Up to The English Renaissance and its Culture
The term "Renaissance" means a new birth of the study of the classics. In that period there is the revival of human being too, went out.
Women were taught from birth they were inferior to men and that they were instruments of the devil.
Girls were given any personal freedom, were raised to obey their parents without question and were taught their only function in life was to marry and bear children.
The education of girls was for the privileged and the rich.
Husbands of upper class girls were chosen for them by their fathers or other male relatives because marriages were arranged for political reasons, to cement alliances and to forge bonds between two families.