During the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the three estates comprised of clergy, nobility, and rural peasants evolved into more …show more content…
The social classes depended on each other to function when the Renaissance came over Europe. Soon, trade grew between the cities. With the new business opportunities and economic development, the jobs of the working middle class (baking, manufacturing, trade, etc.) became necessary to sustain the works of others such as artisans and scholars (Italian Society). In addition, where the minority of highly educated humanists and artists that catered to the elite cared little for the masses, concentration of wealth enabled the spread of culture. The patronage of paintings from nobles like the aristocratic families of Venice allowed art to flourish (Renaissance In). There was also vast improvement from before the Renaissance during the times of feudalism, when the peasants lived as serfs on estates owned by lords. The system wasn’t as rigid, and people occasionally moved up a higher ranking within a class, or a higher level altogether. When feudalism broke, nobles saw a decline. Peasants benefited from this, and rose in power and status through their own means. They started producing crops to sell and bought lands of neighbors once a few became wealthy. The greater incentive for them to start working