Vlada Bidna
student of the 2nd master's degree
of the Faculty of History,
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,
Kyiv, Ukraine
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5149-3935
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/2522-4611.2024.49.13
A WOMAN OF THE RENAISSANCE: PECULIARITIES OF HER FORMATION
The article, based on historiographical research, examines the peculiarities of development and prerequisites for the development of women during the Renaissance, and examines the main stages of the development of the problem. The relevance of the topic lies in the fact that the Renaissance era formed new worldview orientations that had a significant impact on the development and formation of the current society. Humanism, which became a symbol of the Renaissance, produced the ideas of anthropocentrism, which took as a basis the return to the beauty of man and this was explained by the departure from the medieval idea of man and the formation of a new understanding that each individual person was associated with individuality, which was brought to unity and grew to originality and sovereignty. She is free in her attitude, not a part of something, but self-sufficient, able to defy fate. The aim is to investigate the position of women during the Renaissance, its evolution and the reasons that became catalysts for the corresponding changes. The set goal made it necessary to solve the following tasks: analyze the historiographical and source base of the research; to investigate the historical factors that contributed to the transformation of the position of women; reveal the advantages and disadvantages of the position of women during the Renaissance. Given the peculiarities and complexity of our problem, it is advisable to use general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, and special-historical ones: comparative, systematic, historical periodization, retrospective. The author analyzed the process of formation and development of issues in the world historiography of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and also outlined the changes in the process of studying the position of women in the Renaissance era through a wide source base. The state of research of the problem in domestic and foreign historiography at the current stage is highlighted. The main reasons and prerequisites were characterized, in which the problems of the specific development and characteristics of women's lives were considered. Prospects for the development of the search for causes, prerequisites and consequences were considered, as well as an attempt was made to determine directions for further scientific development of the topic.
Key words: women, Renaissance, gender history, New times, Europe.
Received by the editorial board: 13.11.2023.
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