The portrayal of women as passive and quiet within Renaissance literature did not stray far from the image of the Renaissance woman in created works of art. Women are portrayed as disconnected from the realm of knowledge; clearly seen in literature, politics, plays, and even art. ... Renaissance literature typically characterized women as submissive and quiet. ... By breaking her silence and declaring, with dignity, how outlandish his tyranny is, the character of Hermione is severed from the typical role that the Renaissance woman played in literature of the time. ... Knapp, associate Professo...

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All scientific or philosophical studies were supervised by, and in most cases produced by the Church. These alleged explanations of the world and everything it contained were produced by Biblical studies and the Aristotelian system, which became standard Church doctrine. ... Much of the literature, sculptures, and paintings were dedicated to things from the Bible. ... Propelled by geographical explorations, artists and thinkers began to find new specimens of study and yearned to know and portray reality. ... The Scientific Revolution was beginning and it was starting with the study of natu...

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Although scholarship thrived, the literature of the period exposed the flaws of human nature and frailty that may accompany the acquisition of knowledge. ... It developed during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and was a response to the challenge of medieval scholastic education, emphasizing practical, pre-professional and scientific studies. ... This was accomplished through the study of the studia humanitatis, today known as the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry and moral philosophy. ... The foundation of a late medieval liberal arts pedagogy known as the ˜quadriv...

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