Periods?of?European?History?that?Demonstrated?Changing?Attitudes?Towards?the?Education?of?Women?? ? ? ? ? Throughout?the?early?portion?of?modern?European?history,?women?were?? never?encouraged?to?undertake?any?significant?education.?Though?the?problem?? lessened?over?time,?it?was?still?a?strong?societal?force.?There?were?three?? major?time??periods??when?substantial?changes?took?place?in?attitudes?towards?? women's?education????the?Renaissance,?the?Reformation,?and?the?Seventeenth?? and?the?early?Eighteenth?centuries.?? ? The?earliest?time?period,?the?Renaissance,?may?have?actually?been?the?? most?liberal?time?period?for?women's?education.?The?church?was?the?only?? force?at?this?time?that?discouraged?education.?In?Erasmus's?book?"The??