Of Six Mediæval Women; To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens. Alice Kemp-Welch
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Alice Kemp-Welch
Of Six Mediæval Women; To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664652867
Table of Contents
A TENTH-CENTURY DRAMATIST, ROSWITHA THE NUN
A TWELFTH-CENTURY ROMANCE-WRITER, MARIE DE FRANCE
A THIRTEENTH-CENTURY MYSTIC AND BEGUINE, MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG
A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ART-PATRON AND PHILANTHROPIST, MAHAUT, COUNTESS OF ARTOIS
A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FEMINISTE, CHRISTINE DE PISAN
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. | 52 |
| Statue of Mahaut in Abbey of La Thieuloye, near Arras, now destroyed. From a Drawing, now in Brussels, made in 1602 | 99 |
| Marriage of Charles le Bel and Marie of Luxemburg. Grandes Chrons. de France. Bib. Nat. | 100 |
| Thirteenth-Century Treatise on Surgery, in French. Sloane MS. 1977 | 103 |
| Banquet, with Minstrels playing, and Room hung with Embroidery. MS. Romance of Alexander, 14th century. Bodleian, Oxford | 104 |
| Harl. MS. 4425, Brit. Mus. | 105 |
| Christine de Pisan | 119 |
| Lady in Horse-Litter, returning from Tournament. Harl. MS. 4431, Brit. Mus. | 132 |
| La Cité des Dames | 138 |
| Setting out for Poissy. Harl. MS. 4431, Brit. Mus. | 140 |
| Tomb of Agnes Sorel | 158 |
| Book of Hours of Etienne Chevalier | 162 |
| Book of Hours of Etienne Chevalier | 163 |
| Book of Hours, French, 14th century. Brit. Mus. | 176 |
| Harl. MS. 4425, Brit. Mus. | 177 |
| Flemish Master, 15th century. Stephenson Clarke Collection | 181 |
| MS. Romance of Alexander, 14th century | 183 |
| Rhenish Master, C. 1420, Frankfort Hist. Mus. | 185 |
| Harl. MS. 4425, Brit. Mus. | 186 |
INTRODUCTION
The recent researches of scholars and students have brought the study of mediæval times within the range of almost any one who cares to live in imagination in the past. No part of this study has been more advanced and made more informing to us than that which regards the individual. This is specially true of womankind, of whom we have learnt somewhat, in some instances from their own writings, and in others from allusions to their work in those of contemporary and later writers, and also, incidentally, from the vast storehouse of didactic literature, which is so suggestive in itself, reflecting through successive centuries, as it seems to do, the standard of conduct of the large majority. But on this subject—a