Renaissance and Reformation: Impact on Childrearing Practices

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Prior to the period of time that these documents were written was the Renaissance. This was a period of time in which people reimagined the way their life should be. The first document was published the 1550’s; whereas, the Renaissance ended in 1527 and had started in 1375. Another contribution to the way childrearing was in the 1550-1750’s was the Reformation which took place from 1517-1648. These shifts in society are crucial to the social constraints, religious views, and cultural development, because during the Renaissance people had a “rebirth” on social and cultural priorities shifted and in the Reformation religious views changed. In 1550 the social constraints and how the community viewed discipling and how to treat their children differs from the views in 1607 and in different parts of the world. As document one states in 1550 in Russia from the manual on parenting, parents were very strict on their kids and abused them to …show more content…

From document 5 it is in the 1620’s and is from a woman from England. She describes how her mother treated her growing up and it is quite different from other people’s upbringing. The woman is Margaret Cavendish and the way she is treated plays a major role in the role she plays in the Scientific Revolution by being allowed to be educated and being tenderly loved by her mother. The other document that supports cultural development is document 7. It is written in Amsterdam 1762 by a Philosopher named Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In this document he states that you should not punish your kids too much nor should you punish them too little, and that you need to find a happy medium. This is dramatically different from the ideas of the man from Russia in 1550. Overall, time gave the mother of Cavendish and the philosopher what they needed to develop culturally and change the way people viewed

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