Periods of European History that Demonstrated Changing Attitudes Towards the Education of Women :: European Europe History

Periods of European History that present Changing Attitudes Towards the Education of Women Throughout the early portion of modern European taradiddle, women werenever encouraged to under choose any significant reading. Though the difficultylessened over time, it was still a strong societal force. in that respect were threemajor time periods when substantial changes took place in attitudes towardswomens education -- the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Seventeenthand the early Eighteenth centuries. The earliest time period, the Renaissance, may hurt actually been themost liberal time period for womens education. The church was the unlessforce at this time that discouraged education. In Erasmuss book Theabbot and the Learned Lady, The churchs position on this issue says thateducation does not protect the chastity that was necessary for women. Therewere still, however, a certainty that women could and should be educated. For example, in Castigliones book The Court ier, it is stated that women ar capable of everything that men are. Also, Roger Ascham has depicthis female student(the future Queen Elizabeth I) as equally bright as anyother male student of his. Furthermore, in a earn by the poet LouiseLabe, she states a need for women to raise their head above theirspindles and take up studying. The next age, the Reformation and the catholic Reformation, saw aspectacular and conservative change toward the attitudes of education forwomen. Martin Luther, a leader of the Reformation, was quoted as verbalisethat God made men with wide-cut shoulders to do all the intelligent, and womenwith broad hips to do the sitting and housework. Agreeing with MartinLuther, was Emond Auger, a French Jesuit, who said there is no need forwomen to take time out from their work and read the nonagenarian and New Testamentand also that Women must be silent in church. The third age of early modern European history is the seventeenth andearly eighteenth ce nturies, in which men at rotund were still stronglyagainst the education of women, but they had reached a compromise to several(prenominal)extent. They allowed women to be educated on a minor level, as Mme. deMaintenon(wife of Louis XIV) says modernize your middle-class girls in themiddle-class way, but dont embellish their minds, but a women could nevergo beyond that. It seemed also that some men had unconnected view pointson this issue. In Molieres play The Learned Ladies, educated women are