Question

The author of the passage discusses Krontiris primarily to provide an example of a writer who ____________.

• A. Is highly critical of the writings of certain Renaissance women
• B. Supports Kelly's view of women's status during the Renaissance
• C. Has misinterpreted the works of certain Renaissance women
• D. Has rejected the views of both Burckhardt and Kelly
• E. Has studied Renaissance women in a wide variety of social and religious contexts

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Has rejected the views of both Burckhardt and Kelly

Option D is the correct answer as in the given passage both Kelly and Burchardt made based on their observation about upper-class women .as Kelly in her famous essay written in 1977 about women argued that this was the period where the social decline of women.

A significant scholar has rejected this theory of Kelly and Burckhardt.

Kronitiris is concerned with women's achievements, the power of Renaissance optimistic achievements.

She suggests that such verbal opposition to cultural stereotypes was highly circumscribed.