Renaissance Life
As we study Renaissance Life, let’s compare it to Medieval Life. You will need to take a few minutes and explore the following web page:
Scroll your mouse across the table of links at the top of the page to see what headings are offered. Sections such as Life, Society, and Drama all have sub-pages that provide a wealth of information. Write a short summary of what you read on that page. Please do not cover a sub-page that another commenter has covered. Have fun discovering the Renaissance.
I read about costumes/fashion in the Medieval life. The site talked about how the most fashionable woman was the Queen Elizebeth. She had over 300 adorn gowns and 1600 other clothing items. She was seen as the ultimate fashionista and as she grew older her tastes grew more and more gaudy.
I read about the age of marriage in the Renaissance Period. It was an interesting article because most people tend to think that people living in the Renaissance time period got married at very young ages. Stories like Romeo and Juliet lead us to believe that getting married as a teenager was a common occurence back then. This is actually inaccurate. Apparently, the average marrying age back then was around 23 for women and around 26 for men, and many times people were even older than that.
i read about the jesters during this time period. There were two different types, the natural fool and the artificial fool. A natural fool is one who is incapeable of acting normal due to mental illness or retardation. The artificial fool, in contrast, creates an act for the purposes of humor.
I think that rather than dwelling on the past, we should concentrate on what the future could bring us. Who really cares about what life was like so very long ago?
I read about children during the Renaissance period. Children were thought of as miniature adults, rather than having different needs and such. Noble families usually sent their young children to another noble house to be trained to have noble behavior. It was a lot like shipping a very young toddler or child off to boarding school. Middle and lower-class families usually kept their children at home, but made them get a job at a very early age.
I believe Max to be a fool.
In any case, this being one I could do for points, I unfortunately could not get access to the website, as it seems to indicate that it is off-line or is otherwise inaccessible.