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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 ove ....

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.... capable of everything that 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 do all the intelligent, and women with broad hips to do the "sitting" and housewo ....