SO WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH CLOCKS ??????

*When Europe thinks they were the first one to make clocks .. but really it was Mayans and the Chinese *

• So here's the deal: Europeans learned how to quantify, or measure time with the mechanical clock
• Buying and selling goods had initiated its people into the practice of quantification --> They needed precise measurement of the day's hours. 
• "Along with cannon and printing, clocks gave Europeans technological advantages over other people"- so that basically means it was a sense of efficiency and practicality for the Europeans in the city for trade/production and in the rural areas for farm days in winter/summer for fixed hours

WOMEN AND WORK

Women during the Renaissance --> was life good/better than before/same??

A lot became WORKING WOMEN - however the status of upper class women declined 

they were no long held on a high pedestal - nevertheless - they remained a symbol for wealth/still thought of as property. 

The patriarchy of men being being held in higher than women is prominent during this time period because the men's intellectual movement caused their humanistic views to overpower the women.

- Men returns "back to the classics" and put women back in the cult of domesticity compared to medieval times

Humanists laid the foundation of bourgeois double standard 

• women - sex restricted to marriage & bound to chastity and then they have to live the role of    wife/mother in arranged marriage
• WHILE MENNNN CAN PURSUE OTHER WOMEN WHILE MARRIED. SAY WHHAT

rape:

• Attitudes toward rape provide an index of status of women in the renaissance
• Rape not considered serious crime against victim or society
•  Shows different views of society à the rape of young girl of marriageable age of child under 12 considered GRAVER than rape of married woman because you have to be a virgin when you get married
• Punishment of rape fine/six months imprisonment
• Reinforces the perception of society with the decline in respect/status of woman

    Homosexuality - enforced or suppressed? lol is that even a question IT WAS SUPPRESSED DURING THE RENAISSANCE. even though the renaissance was all for individualism and humanism... they weren't really that accepting for homosexuality. Then there was the whole deal with masculinity - so if you had a 20 yr old and a 40 yr old the 20 year old would lose his masculinity and be passive and take on a female role in the patriarchy. Obviously the renaissance was a religious rebirth also, so it was oppressed even further in society because it was considered a "sin."

SSLAVES AND WOMEN: 

Slaves and women ==>    both inferior to men/ both symbols of wealth

·      number of slaves outward sign of your wealth ESPECIALLY IF THEY WERE AFRICAN

·      DISPLAYED WEALTH