1450 – 1500

 

Political & Diplomatic	Intellectual & Cultural	Social & Economic
Hundred Years War Ends	Valla	Castiglione
Lorenzo de’Medici	Pico	Laura Cereta*
Treaty of Tordesillas 1494	Donatello	Discovery of New World
Peace of Lodi	Masaccio	Reconquista
New Monarchs	L. da Vinci	Prince Henry Navigator
Cosimo de’Medici	Raphael	Sugar Trade
Fall of Constantinople	Savanarola	Spice Trade
War of the Roses	Spanish Inquisition	Simony
Henry VII	Gutenberg	Usury
Ivan the Great	Humanism	Cottage Industry
Ferdinand & Isabella	Rationalism
	Individualism
	Botticelli

 

Gender Roles:

The violence of late Medieval warfare often left noblewomen to manage large manors, engage in politics and organize defense of castles. Younger women often joined convents where they could indulge in intellectual and spiritual interests. Women also played a major role in religious change (heresies). Courtly love and chivalry codes protected and honored women. Cities and town relied on the labor of women in craft and trade families. Women worked in food production, brewing and textiles. Lower class women worked along side their husbands in the fields farming and tending livestock. Since peasants worked outdoors for a living domestic chores played a minor role.