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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 MEDIAEVAL 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. Duerer, 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 Cite des Dames 138

Setting out for Poissy. Harl. MS. 4431, Brit. Mus. 140

Tomb of Agnes Sorel 158