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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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

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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