London: Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row, MDCCCLXIX
Physical Description
xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. (hbk).
General Note
10 chromolithographic colour plates plus colour half-title.
Contents
Woman in Gaul and Britain under the Celt and the Roman -- The women of Teutonic mythology and romance -- The Franks in Gaul -- The Anglo-Saxon woman -- Boniface and his fair correspondents : the Anglo-Saxon nuns -- Transition to the feudal period : domestic life in the castle : the Anglo-Normans -- Condition and costume of women in the twelfth century -- The women of feudal romance : Bertha and Parise -- Provence, its poetry and the courts of love -- The Romance of the rose -- Womankind in the feudal castle : woman's position in the household : chivalry, the relations of the sexes, love -- Womankind in the feudal castle : woman's amusements : the gardens of the castle, pet animals -- Womankind in the feudal castle : the feudal lady of the castle : walking, riding, and driving -- Womankind in the feudal castle : hunting and hawking -- Womankind in the feudal castle : woman's beauty and woman's dress -- Womankind outside the feudal castle : the town and country : pastoral life -- Literature among women of the feudal period : Marie de France and Christine de Pisan -- The transition from feudalism : the beginning of the sixteenth century : Louis XII and Henry VIII -- The social movement of the sixteenth century in France : the female costume -- How Englishwomen looked in the days of Queen Elizabeth -- Continuation of the Elizabethan Age to that of Charles I.
Provenance
Inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper "S.A.H." [i.e. Solomon Alexander Hart RA, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81].
Binding Note
Blue cloth boards with bevelled edges. Gilt and black stamping on cover and spine. Gilt edges.