HIST 332 Lecture 13: Lecture 13 - Did Women Have a Renaissance
19 Feb 2019
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Women did have an education, but it was not the same education that men received. Humanists said that women should get an education that included latin and would have access to classical wisdom and moral philosophy as well as religious literature. As soon as women were starting to get the education, some emerged as proto feminists and started to defend women. Biggest argument for if women had a renaissance was the emergence of proto feminism which started in the. Christine de pizan was the first women feminist in. She was italian and her father came from pizzano. She went off to france with her father because. King george wanted him to be his physician. She was essentially french and wrote in french which made her not a humanist because she did not write in latin. Her father gave her an excellent education and encouraged her to study. Her mother was not happy about a higher education for her daughter.
