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Did women have a Renaissance? Jacob Burckhardt, 1860: • In the Renaissance, “man became a spiritual individual, and recognized himself as such.” And furthermore, “…we must keep before our minds the fact that women stood on a footing of perfect equality with men. We must not suffer ourselves to be misled by the sophistical and often malicious talk about the assumed inferiority of the female sex, which we meet with now and then… There was no question of ‘woman’s rights’ or female emancipation, simply because the thing itself was a matter of course. The educated woman, no less than the man, strove naturally after a characteristic and complete individuality.” Joan Kelly, 1977, ‘Did women have a Renaissance?’: • The economic and political developments “that reorganized society along modern lines and opened the possibilities for the social and cultural expression for which the age is known… affected women adversely, so much so that there was no renaissance for women - at least not during the Renaissance.”
The debate 35 years on… • Answer of course depends very much on how you define the Renaissance: this is a key point. Asking questions about gender forces us to qualify and reconsider what we mean when we talk about “the Renaissance.” • 35 years later, new questions are being asked. • Leads us to look for different kinds of sources. • Leads us to ask new questions of old sources.
Page 1 and 2: Plotting Social Hierarchies in the
Page 3 and 4: Centres and peripheries: a contempo
Page 5 and 6: Some ways of thinking about margina
Page 7 and 8: The Other Renaissance • Alterity
Page 9 and 10: A contested space Domenico Ghirland
Page 11 and 12: Who is missing? Who is at the perip
Page 13 and 14: Public Women, Women in the Streets
Page 15 and 16: Sodomy • Michael Rocke’s major
Page 17: Decentering the Renaissance ‣ How
Page 21 and 22: Key points • Marginalisation has
Page 23 and 24: What do you think? • In what sens
Page 25: Websites • Eurodocs: Online Sourc

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