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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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
