Summary Of Did Women Have A Renaissance By Joan Gadol

Joan Kelly-Gadol’s perspective in her essay “Did Women Have a Renaissance” differs greatly from the perspectives in A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance by William Manchester, and R.R. Palmer’s A History of the Modern World. While Kelly-Gadol focuses on Women during the Renaissance, Manchester focuses on the change from medieval times to the Renaissance, with the spotlight on Christianity, Palmer focuses on the Humanists beliefs. Neither Manchester’s nor Palmer’s writings appear to have much in common with Kelly-Gadol’s, but they do have some in common. A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance and “Did Women Have a Renaissance?” have many differences, but they also have many similarities.