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Title: Of Six Mediaeval Women
To Which Is Added A Note on Mediaeval Gardens

Author: Alice Kemp-Welch

Release Date: March 31, 2010 [EBook #31843]

Language: English

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OF SIX MEDIAEVAL WOMEN
WITH
A NOTE ON MEDIAEVAL GARDENS

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO
DALLAS . SAN FRANCISCO

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

[Illustration: _Bib. de l'Arsenal, Paris._

POET DECLAIMING TO ACCOMPANIMENT OF VIOL.

_Frontispiece._]

OF SIX MEDIAEVAL WOMEN
TO WHICH IS ADDED
A NOTE ON
MEDIAEVAL 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

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INTRODUCTION