Gender roles took a very big part with the depiction of women during the strong artistic values in the Renaissance. This included social run ins‚ what women did and were allowed to do‚ the women who participated in making art‚ art workshops and institutions‚ how nuns and religions were involved‚ the differences between men and women with public art‚ patronage and the female representation. Women have always been discriminated against in the art world and had very different rules than
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towards both epic (e.g. proemio‚ invocations to Greek deities) and romance (e.g. the theme of love affair and the leitmotiv of the courtly hero). In addition to it‚ Chaucer is in debt also with the fabliau genre and with the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio‚ whose version of Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer`s main source of inspiration. The literary genre called “fabliau” refers to French brief comic tales in verse‚ usually coarse and dirty. It also parodies in a very cynical way
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Shakespeare The Fraud Getting recognized for personal work is always a good feeling. However‚ when someone else steals your idea and receives credit and appraisal for it the feelings drastically change. This is exactly how the original author would have felt if they were alive when Shakespeare wrote Romeo & Juliet. Shakespear doesn’t deserve credit for the story of Romeo & Juliet; he plagiarized the original story ( Pyramus & Thisbe )‚ stole this story from the original authors‚ and kept most
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Renaissance Rebirth‚ Reawakening‚ Intellectual Awareness‚ Resurgence‚ Cultural Awakening and Cultural Revivalism are different terms which are used for Renaissance in history. After the thirteenth century‚ under the changing conditions of the time‚ man tried to discover the man and the world. It was like awakening to the true realities about the nature and man. This awakening is referred to as Renaissance. It is a French word‚ which means to wake again from a sleep. Some authorities have called
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at the time‚ a historian can make the argument that Europeans believed that the Black Death was the wrath of God and punishment for their sins‚ based on the sources provided. Such evidence includes how Boccaccio recorded in The Decameron ‚ “Men and women‚ convinced of this and caring about nothing
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Education of the middle ages Education‚ as we know it today‚ did not exist in the Middle Ages. Illiteracy was dominant among the population. Scribes were the exception to the rule. Churches were the main source of knowledge and schooling. Real interest in learning grew along with the development of towns. The towns’ officials needed to be educated. At the same time a need for legal institutions was created and so started the university phenomenon. Modern education was on its way. There were
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Filostrato is the teller of the story. For the second time there is no prescribed theme for the stories of the day. * Theme of the story is discovering the simplicity of Calandrino‚ and how easy it is to trick him. 2nd * “Not only does Boccaccio invent a host of original comic characters‚ but he presents them in a broad range of situations‚ frequently using his mastery of comical discourse to heighten his effects.” * Calandrino was the prototype for many of the simpleton Characters of
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HOW DID THE BLACK DEATH AFFECT EUROPEAN SOCIETIES OF THE MID-FOURTEENTH CENTURY? How did the Black Death affect European societies of the mid-fourteenth century? The Black Death is the most significant natural phenomenon in human history and continues to be the subject of medical‚ historical and sociological analysis . The ‘first epidemic of the second plague pandemic’ devastated Europe between 1347 and 1351‚ killing 25 to 45% of Europe’s population (over 75 million people
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Cited: Boccaccio‚ Giovanni. Concerning Famous Women [1335‚ De Claris Mulieribus].Trans. Guido Guarino. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP‚ 1963. Dio‚ Cassuis. The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus [c. 200 C.E.]. Trans. Ian Scott Kilvert. New York: Penguin‚ 1988. Hamer‚ Mary
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During the Middle Ages‚ women didn’t have as much rights as they did nowadays. Since they weren’t soldiers‚ they didn’t have much political rights. Socially‚ women were submissive to their male relatives such as their father‚ husband‚ and others. The only place where women could contribute to society was at home during the childbearing stages. However‚ stories in these periods presented two women that were different from the typical woman: The Wife of Bath from Canterbury Tales‚ and Monna Giovana
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