Essay On Renaissance Women

The Renaissance was a time of rebirth in which the principles of classical antiquity experienced revival and discoveries bloomed across Europe. Florence, Italy was the epicenter of Renaissance thought and the home to famous Renaissance men from Michelangelo to Da Vinci. While Renaissance men are at the forefront of history little was known about the lives of Renaissance women until recent decades where it has been revealed that women did not truly experience a Renaissance. This essay will analyze how women did not experience a Renaissance due to the loss of equality that women had gained through the course of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance in fact limited options and freedoms available to women in the prospects of single life, marriage and …show more content…
Even in more barbaric times, women were held at a higher standard and allowed broader societal roles than in the ‘revolutionary’ age of the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages women, elite women in particular proved to be far more involved in the management of property while their husbands were away for military or diplomatic reasons. However, as the Renaissance period approached elite women lost this privilege due to the introduction of male clerks and staffs who became important in the process of managing elite mens’ …show more content…
Women sustained a decrease in opportunity and power as the Medieval Ages progressed resulting in them being more disenfranchised than they had been a couple hundred years ago. Women faced limited options in Renaissance life such as marriage, servitude, and convent life, all focusing around the prospects of a dowry. In the face of widowhood, poorer women had to make the decision between their children and economic stability and this tarnished the notion of women and gave them even less freedom in life. Women experienced an extremely limited life of unfairness during the Renaissance as men flourished with endless