Show women of the 3 liddle age ages it Is perhaps doubtful whether modern i civilization tends to produce women of I 1 uch ruch strength of character and such intal letual cc nal and social acquirements acquire ments as those 0 who were the wives and daugh daughters terA of tho the lords and captains of the feudal ages the art alt and the literature of tho the fifteenth century ten lury have immortalized women who remain models of virtue and refinement in the middle la agea ages also if it we only took the trouble to study them we should find that the women of the latin nations were extremely cultivated tind and most antl intimately e and affectionately associated with the lives and carm of their lords at least uch ruch ap itaas to agy al werl ahe aasc in francesf France Jf if 13 1 0 3 M noty MAY AY ui ai adli r ii re r e romances 1 lic c chrona e besand s and UK th doctry of the tsirle thirteenth ll 11 t mid fourteenth centuries ind from th alie of tile splendid birou ments of are and the grand old tomba tombs which anve lin i im served the memories of 80 ninny eloquent like the model of feminine minlue fc good breeding depleted depicted by castiglione nt at the court of urbino the ladles ladies of the middle ages had not only the charm of delicate education and varied accomplishments but also manly sentiments a love of justice a marked hatred of hypocrites hypocrite i and cowards and fine independence of character their conversation must indeed have had bad great charm seeing that their feudal lords remembered it evenin even in the heat of battle and looked forward to its solace at a t one of the sweeta sweets 0 of f victory theodore ch child ild in harper harpers bazar |