“Let wives be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church.” placing women under the control of men in society. The restrictions imposed on women were in many ways a reflection of the changes sweeping through society at the time, leading men to re-emphasize a patriarchal order of society. As Europe moved beyond the chaos and confusion left by the bubonic plague, it became critical to not only make a series of changes, but also to reintegrate these changes within previously existing social and political structures. To do so, men employed a variety of explanations and tactics to maintain the traditional social order. As Money, Money, Money indicates, during the Renaissance of the 14th and 15th centuries, money, religion and authority were continually used by men as reasons and methods to limit women in almost all areas of society regarding their sumptuary laws, the patriarchal family, social opportunities and marriage. The sumptuary laws instituted by the government represented a largely public level of restriction imposed on women in Florentine society. These laws specifically targeted all women over the age of ten regarding their clothing by requiring an annual fee for wearing a certain level of adornment on their body or clothing. As Money, Money, Money has demonstrated through various illustrative cases, these laws were in fact rigorously enforced regardless of age or social status.2 One of the specific reasons for these laws was the revenue derived from the original or subsequently reckless taxes… . .at the heart of the document...is completely justified by monetary, social and religious means that demonstrated that women were to be controlled through the enforcement of sumptuary laws, the creation of patriarchal families, the limitation of social opportunities and organization of marriages.Works CitedNotes1. Quoted in Clifford R. Backman, The Cultures of the West: A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 429-30.2. Money, money, money, 8.3. Ibid., 7.4. 1 Peter 3:3 (New International Version).6. Backman, The Cultures of the West, 430.7. Quoted in Backman, The Cultures of the West, 429.8. Money, money, money, 14.9. Ibid., 14.10. Backman, The Cultures of the West, 431.11. Money, money, money, 3-7.12. Backman, The Cultures of the West, 429-430.13. Ibid., 435.BibliographyBackman, Clifford R. The Cultures of the West: A History. New York: Oxford University Press,2013