During the Renaissance period, there were women and the Church. After a while women were getting more involved in the Church and more roles in religion, but women could not join the secular clergy. There was a time the citizens didn’t agree with the church and wanted a change within the Church. Queen Elizabeth played a major part in religion because of her beliefs and views. During the Renaissance period, religion and the Roman Catholic Church evolved due to Queen Elizabeth’s views, citizens opposing its practices, and women taking on more roles.
Queen Elizabeth’s views played a major part in religion and the church during the Renaissance period, her views were very open, and everyone was welcomed even the people against the church. Queen …show more content…
Despite women working in the same fields as men they were still looked as weaker and less intelligent than men (“HInds”). However, women played a major part in supporting and spreading the new faith, women continued to keep active roles for the church. Regardless of women not being able to join the secular clergy, they could join monasteries and become nuns. Even the nuns faced many restrictions and prejudices as other women. For example, women were forbidden to preach, serve priest, or even aid to help the priest during religious services (“Hinds”). Nuns were always supervised by men, the church taught that women would distract men from religion and that they were more “sinful than men”. Protestant governments eventually closed down all monasteries, having the monks and nuns put in the streets (“Hinds”). "All women were expected to marry, help their husbands, have children, and run a home”. This was considered the Christian life for a women.
Women later in the years started to get more and more respect that they deserved and proved to men that whatever they can do women can to. There are still citizens who oppose the church today, some things just never change. But then, there began to be more religions starting and made for other churches. Not all of Queen Elizabeth’s views were supported, but her views did change the way people thought of others opposing the church. Queen Elizabeth wanted her views
Queen Elizabeth’s views played a major part in religion and the church during the Renaissance period, her views were very open, and everyone was welcomed even the people against the church. Queen …show more content…
Despite women working in the same fields as men they were still looked as weaker and less intelligent than men (“HInds”). However, women played a major part in supporting and spreading the new faith, women continued to keep active roles for the church. Regardless of women not being able to join the secular clergy, they could join monasteries and become nuns. Even the nuns faced many restrictions and prejudices as other women. For example, women were forbidden to preach, serve priest, or even aid to help the priest during religious services (“Hinds”). Nuns were always supervised by men, the church taught that women would distract men from religion and that they were more “sinful than men”. Protestant governments eventually closed down all monasteries, having the monks and nuns put in the streets (“Hinds”). "All women were expected to marry, help their husbands, have children, and run a home”. This was considered the Christian life for a women.
Women later in the years started to get more and more respect that they deserved and proved to men that whatever they can do women can to. There are still citizens who oppose the church today, some things just never change. But then, there began to be more religions starting and made for other churches. Not all of Queen Elizabeth’s views were supported, but her views did change the way people thought of others opposing the church. Queen Elizabeth wanted her views