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Thank you We sneak Renaissance what was the renaissance last

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minute It means literally re bird think of it as

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this time when there was this like huge cultural movement

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everything the arts will be invigorated And there was a

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shift of attention from god to man Right So there's

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this renewed interest in people's ability to like make interesting

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things and be interesting exercise of reason apart from god

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right So it makes a lot of sense That kind

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of writing were reading in the renaissance looks really different

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from the stuff that we were reading in the middle

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ages Right So like julian of norwich like visions of

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jesus is not what they're writing about the renaissance the

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grandson through writing stuff more like the city of ladies

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Although it's still important to note that most of the

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writing is being done by men Yeah it was pretty

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hierarchical society Women were at home taking care of domestic

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matters and the heroine's that you see like joan of

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arc r exceptions to the rules They're not the rule

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and the remarkable because they act like men right It's

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not just that joan of arc was like housewife That

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was also really cool And had interesting things to say

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she's taking on the role of a man and even

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like physically trying to look like a man right in

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order to assume this role that happens in and out

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of the house So domestic in this period means a

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different thing than it means now It's non here lee

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housework or housework might involve brewing beer curing meteor thing

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like that So women are taking on things that we

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might associate with men but they're always seen as and

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specifically because they don't have the reason that men have

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right The explanation for this is that women are emotional

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creatures and men are rational creatures and for that reason

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during the renaissance in which everything was about reason and

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the primacy of reason it made a lot of sense

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that men should be the head of things being decisions

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rationally right Well women could just be entertaining Men are

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pursuing truth during this period men are understanding science in

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the way that the world works Women as you said

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are too emotional for that they're not logical and they

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can't pursue these past that's the fiction anyway How did

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our and writing change from the middle ages to the

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renaissance Why were women seen as inferior to men at

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this time We have renaissance fairs every day Bring your 00:02:26.761 --> [endTime] loot

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