Renaissance Life & Society Period 5

Renaissance Life & Society Period 5Project done by:Trevor LombardiMichael GaccioneMilad MirghahariJoe Servidio Mike Contreras

● 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.

Education

• 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

Family

● Married young ● Were suppose to be servants ● Parents arranged marriage ● Were under control by men

Marriage

● 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 princein an effective and honest way

Nobility

• 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

Peasants

● 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.

Townspeople