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Women in the Renaissance
• I. Women before the Renaissance • Classical • Christian • Medieval
• II. Women During the Renaissance • Joan Kelly, Margaret King • Diversity of experience: wives, mothers, widows, nuns,
scholars, court ladies
• III. Women After the Renaissance • Prot. Reformation • Catholic Reformation
Women: The Classical legacy
Aristotle: “imperfect men”
• Plato: Republic’s female guardians
• Xenophon: women suited for indoor tasks
• Rome: paterfamilias
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Women: The Christian legacy • Old Testament • Jesus & parables & M.
Magdalene • St. Paul: the “weaker vessel” • St. Augustine, Confessions • St. Thomas Aquinas • Vincent de Beauvais
(Dominican), in Speculum: “she is the confusion of man, an insatiable beast, a continuous anxiety, an incessant warfare, a daily ruin, a house of tempest, and a hindrance to devotion.”
Women: the Medieval legacy
• Courtly love • Bocaccio: De mulieribus claribus &
Griselda • Christine de Pizan, Book of Ladies
Women of the Renaissance
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• Joan Kelly, “Did Women Have a Renaissance?”
• Courtly Love • Contraction • Renaiss. of Chastity
• Margaret King, Women of the Renaissance
• Daughters of Eve • Daughters of Mary • Virgo et Virago
Mothers and Wives
Nuns
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Court Lady
Castiglione
Scholar/Humanist