Three Periods Of European History Where Attitudes Towards Women's Education Changed

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Three Periods of European History Where Attitudes Towards Women's Education MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY: DBQ #1 Throughout the early portion of modern European history, women were never encouraged to undertake any significant education. Though the problem lessened over time, it ....

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.... men are. Also, Roger Ascham has described his female student(the future Queen Elizabeth I) as equally bright as any other male student of his. Furthermore, in a letter by the poet Louise Labe`, she states a need for women to "raise their head above their spindles" and take up studying. The next age, the Reformation and the catholic Reformation, saw a dramatic and conservative change toward the attitudes of education for women. Martin Luther, a leader of the Reformation, was quoted as saying that God made men with broad shoulders to d ....