Evan's project

1. Daily life in the
Renaissance
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By Evan Morrison

2. Average Family Life
❖ The average family consisted of a set of parents and three
children.
❖ They lived in small houses, most with no more than two
rooms and very low ceilings.
❖ Would not be unusual for a family of four to share one bed.
❖ There would be only two outfits and one pair of shoes per
person.
❖ Maybe a few tools as well as a few pieces of tableware in
each household.

3. Men of the Renaissance
❖ The men worked outside
of the house, tending to
the fields or working in a
merchants shop.
❖ They worked every day
from morning till dusk.

4. Woman of the Renaissance
❖ Women had a much lesser role
in society than men.
❖ Renaissance women were
expected to stay home and take
care of the children
❖ Women were not allowed to
take part in their husbands
business.

5. Continued
❖ Women who could not mary
or lacked a dowry were
actually forced to become
nuns.
❖ Customs and prejudice kept
married women in the home
and out of society.

6. Children of the Renaissance
❖ As a child in a normal peasant family you would have been very
lucky to survive the first years of your life, due to disease and
poor nutrition.
❖ Toddlers were often tied to something with a rope or confined
to a wooden walker, this was due to the many fires and boiling
liquids that the average household contained.
❖ They were thought of as mini adults.
❖ They were dressed like adults and treated like adults.
❖ Children had no rights.
❖ Still, a few children of wealthy families were allowed to have a
few childhood toys, and be shielded from harsh daily life. http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/electionalrameseychildren.html

7. Children of the Renaissance
Continued ()Boys()
❖ Boys stayed home with their mothers until the age of 7 or 8, then they went off
to serve as servants to wealthier families.
❖ At the age or 14 they were able to take up apprenticeships at any number of
stalls or shops.
❖ The upperclass boys were often taught by a governor (an employer or person of
authority), a tutor or sent to college.
❖ They were often taught grammar and arithmetic, because they could become
merchants or traders.
❖ peasant boys, on the other hand, were often uneducated.

8. Girls of the Renaissance
❖ Girls stayed at home with their mothers and learned the
necessary skills to run a household.
❖ If the family was poor it was not uncommon for the young
girls to be put to work or sold as domestic servants.
❖ A female was considered a “girl” until she was married.
❖ Girls from upper class families might be educated in a
nunnery until they could be married to improve the family
fortunes.

9. Sources of Entertainment
❖ Children played with makeshift or homemade toys.
❖ Every few weeks the family would probably attend the local
plays presented by traveling troupes, that arrived in the
village or town.
❖ Once in a while the entire family would go to observe
jousting tournaments with most of the rest of the town.

10. THE END
❖ Any Questions?