An 18 year old Marie-Antoinette,wife of Louis-Auguste the dauphin of France, and daughter of Maria Theresa,the Empress of Austria.She would later become the queen of France,which she would reign for over two decades until she was declared guilty of high treason by the Revolutionary Tribunal and executed by guillotine.…
Isabella Granger 12/30/12 AP Euro Hist. DBQ essay The power of Nobility For many centuries, the lucky people were born into...…
Diary entry Lecture 1 The first lecture was a start to a large topic known as the imperial capital world city: London 1750-1914. As an introduction, the lecture started with a question as to what the British empire and what variables is affected its strength. The question directed acted as method of reviewing my own personal knowledge on the Empire, I needed to understand the aspects involved. The trading that occurred which to gave the empire new materials to support its military and riches to support its monarchs, these merchandises were obtained through the efforts of trading with other empires or countries that contained the goods needed.…
I was getting very excited for my husband, Henry, to return home after a few years, which felt like decades. He had left only two years after our marriage when I was 22 and he was 23. He decided to go into the army, and left fairly quickly because of the war we were in the middle of. He joined in the year of 1914, towards November.…
In the times of the Renaissance, women began to gain rights. One of these rights was the right to read. Although it was more accepted than it was in the past, many people still disagreed with the thought of women and girls reading.…
Women played a major role in New France. They had to work very hard, cook for the family, and care for their children. Women were expected to stay home and keep the house going while their husbands are at work. European Women were shaped by the legitimate, social, and religious estimations of their public. Majority of recognizable explorers, traders, and generals are male, there are various records of ladies helping or assuming the responsibility of different parts of provincial life. Aboriginal women were able to influence both sides of the fur trade through intermarriage.…
characteristics. In “Les Quatre Sohais Saint-Martin”, “The Chevalier Who Made Cunts Talk”, and “The Miller’s Prologue and Tale” medieval women are portrayed in similar ways. Women are imaginative and therefor their thoughts must be controlled. They also, in the Fabliaux, crave sex and have sexually creative minds. These three Fabliaux texts present women that are similar and represent commonly held views about the female sex of the time.…
“In the beginning, of our story all significant societies were clearly patriarchal. There was no single exception” (Therborn, 2004, 17). In the period before the feminist movement occurred, the representation and status were oppressive and limit as they were expected to be submissive to their husbands and fathers. Therefore, in that period, roles as mother, daughters and wives were considered as the significant roles for women in society. However, there were some good signs of changes in the 17th century that the attitude and representation of women started to gradually improve.…
The literature of a particular era is greatly influenced by the contemporary social, political, and cultural issues present during the time. Sixteenth century lifestyle and way of living was completely different from the way we live our lives in the 21st century. One of the very apparent social issue brought to light in the Sixteenth century was the traditional role of women during this time. Many contemporary sixteenth century writers portrayed women in their ideal form in the literature they produced, which caused great problems for women during this time. The portrayal of the “ideal” woman was based on the established protocols of the ideal way women were expeted to behave according to sixteenth century societies standards.…
Francomano, Weiss, and Barbara Weissberger suggest the dynastic upheaval that challenged traditional gender roles with a female’s inheritance of the throne following two kings accused of effeminacy generated an anxiety expressed through literature and incited the debate well into the Renaissance. This anxiety along with a period of transition for the definition of nobility helped sustain the debate for several years into the next two centuries.…
Having a right to vote is today a matter of course to almost every woman from any prosperous country. But it was not a matter of course for women in the past. During the whole centuries, women were disadvantaged. Women had no right to property after they get married, and they seemed to have no protection in law. But there was nothing they could do about that, as they had no right to vote, so they could not influence the law-making system. Nevertheless, even at that time some women were determined to make change in the system and to fight for their votes.…
Like most places in the world, until recently, women were considered an extension of their husband or father. They were given none or little rights both socially and politically. During the French revolution spanning from1789-1794, most social groups went though great changes from the nobles of the second estate, to the common man of the third. The revolutionary changes experienced by women in France were insignificant compared to most other social groups around them; their place in society stayed relatively stagnant. Revolutions often change things for everyone and the French revolution is an example of change at its minimum, at least for women. Most men and women agreed…
History show that women made a very significant contribution to the economy during the medieval period. Most of the literary text published does not give an accurate accounting of medieval women besides their man jobs as being wives, bearing children and, depending on their social class, being gossips’ taking care of other people’s children. Most of the literary text also talks mainly about the oppression and inequality women dealt with. Social class, marital status and the time and placed that they lived contribute to what the everyday life of a women in the medieval period would consist of. Not all women were to be confined to life in the home. Middle class women in particular were more hands on. They were not only expected to maintain their…
The concept of Chivalry has baffled countless medieval historians throughout the years. Chivalry was supposedly a code that knights and nobles lived their lives by. Similarly to other social structures that were in place in the past historians have struggled to draw conclusions as to the extent to which people lived according to chivalric principles. Sir Walter Scott believed that knights aspired to the code of chivalry, but that in the real world it was not carried out. This conclusion gives a clear picture of chivalry. The aristocracy strived to live according to the ideals of chivalry but it was simply impossible to adhere to such rules in real life. Froissart painted a romantic image of The Hundred Years War and of the aristocracy at the…
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English child was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him. All England wanted him too. England had so longed for him, and hoped for him, and prayed God for him, that, now that he was really come, the people went nearly mad for joy. Mere acquaintances hugged and kissed each other and cried. Everybody took a holiday, and high and low, rich and poor, feasted and danced and sang, and got very mellow; and they kept this up for days and nights together. By day, London was a sight to see, with gay banners waving from every balcony and housetop, and splendid pageants marching along. By night, it was again a sight to see, with its great bonfires at every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby, Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, who lay lapped in silks and satins, unconscious of all this fuss, and not knowing that great lords and ladies were tending him and watching over him—and not caring, either. But there was no talk about the other baby, Tom Canty, lapped in his poor rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble with his presence.…