# Of Six Mediaeval Women (1913)

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OF SIX MEDIÆVAL WOMEN
WITH
A NOTE ON MEDIÆVAL GARDENS
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
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. | 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, I4th 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 |
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