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Of Six Mediæval Women; To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens

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OF SIX MEDIÆVAL WOMEN
WITH
A NOTE ON MEDIÆVAL GARDENS

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Poet declaiming to accompaniment of Viol

Bib. de l’Arsenal, Paris.

POET DECLAIMING TO ACCOMPANIMENT OF VIOL.

Frontispiece.

OF SIX
MEDIÆVAL WOMEN
TO WHICH IS ADDED
A NOTE ON
MEDIÆVAL GARDENS

BY
ALICE KEMP-WELCH

WITH INTRODUCTION AND ILLUSTRATIONS

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1913

COPYRIGHT

AUTHOR’S NOTE

The Author’s acknowledgments are due to the Editor of The Nineteenth Century and After for his kind permission to reprint such of the following studies as have already appeared in that Review, and also to “George Fleming” (Miss Constance Fletcher) for her rendering, on page 146, of four verses of Christine de Pisan’s poem on Joan of Arc.

CONTENTS

  PAGE
Introduction xi
A Tenth-Century Dramatist, Roswitha the Nun 1
A Twelfth-Century Romance-Writer, Marie de France 29
A Thirteenth-Century Mystic and Beguine, Mechthild of Magdeburg 57
A Fourteenth-Century Art-Patron and Philanthropist, Mahaut, Countess of Artois 83
A Fifteenth-Century Feministe, Christine de Pisan 116
Agnes Sorel 147
A Note on Mediæval Gardens 173

ILLUSTRATIONS

  FACE PAGE
Poet declaiming to accompaniment of Viol Frontispiece
Roswitha presenting her Poem to the Emperor Otho I., the Abbess of Gandersheim standing at her side. A. Dürer, 1501 1
Cover of St. Emmeran Gospels. 10th century 7
Marriage of Otho II. and Theophano. Byzantine, 10th century 7
Lady playing Harp. Add. MS. 38117, Brit. Mus. 32
Add. MS. 10293, Brit. Mus. 34
Boat with Knights and Lady. Add. MS. 10294, Brit. Mus. 49
Glaukos and Polyeidos in Tomb. Greek Vase, Brit. Mus.

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