Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 143-71.
Chapter 4
Identify: crammy schools, Margaret Roper, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, Anna Maria von Schurmann
1. In what settings did women learn how to read? What did they typically read?
2. To what extent did Renaissance humanism favour education for women? What can we learn from a consideration of female humanists?
3. What arguments in favour of education for women emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
4. What opportunities did courts and salons afford women?
5. What types of women exercised cultrual patronage? What was significant about women's roles as patrons?
6. Did the early modern period represent progress for the cause of the education of women?
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