Women's education and potential for learning evolved from the Renaissance to the early 18th century. During the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the 17th and early 18th centuries, women's education slowly increased from period to period.
The Renaissance was a period in time where women were taught to how to govern a household, encouraged to abstain from sexual relations, and how to conduct herself in the social class into which her marriage would place her. Women were not supposed to attend formal schooling, except for daughters of nobility. In Erasmus's book "The Abbot and the Learned Lady", the lady in the story questions whether a "wife's business to manage the household and rear the children" is the correct understanding of women's role in society. The abbot agrees with her statement, which shows the mentality of what many believed in the Renaissance time period. Eventually, women were permitted to attend grammar school. Soon after that, private schools were established for......
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