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Renaissance Life & Society Period 5. Project done by: Trevor Lombardi Michael Gaccione Milad Mirghahari Joe Servidio Mike Contreras. Education. Education became increasingly secular (less focused on religion) at the beginning of the Renaissance
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Renaissance Life & Society Period 5 Project done by: Trevor Lombardi Michael Gaccione Milad Mirghahari Joe Servidio Mike Contreras
Education • Education became increasingly secular (less focused on religion) at the beginning of the Renaissance • Opened schools and wrote books on things that people needed to be educated about • Humanist schools opened, which taught the thought of liberal studies could help people reach their full potential • Many females didn’t get an education, and the ones that did would be taught about the classics and taught how to play an instrument.
Family • Family bonds were a great source of security • Marriage contracts included a dowry (a sum of money that the wife's family gives the husband during marriage) • Parents arranged marriages
Marriage • Married young • Were suppose to be servants • Parents arranged marriage • Were under control by men
Nobility • Even though nobles had a decline in profit at the beginning of the Renaissance, many were able to retain their land • By 1500, nobles were once again able to dominate European society • Nobles held important political posts and served as advisers to the king • Nobles were held to certain social standards that they had to follow • The aim of a perfect noble was to serve his prince in an effective and honest way
Peasants • Peasants consisted of 85%-90% of the European population • Serfdom decreased because of the decline Manorial System • By the year 1500 peasants started becoming more free
Townspeople • During the Renaissance, Townspeople made up around 10% of the social class • Townspeople were divided into three groups, the patricians, the burghers, and the workers. • The patricians were the highest out of the three, they had lots of wealth from trade, industry, and banking, which let them to rule their community. • The Burghers were the middle class people, were shopkeepers, artisans, guild masters and guild members. • the lower class were the workers, they either learned pitiful pay or were unemployed. They usually lived miserable lives.