FOOTNOTES:
[20] These quotations are from Arnaut de Maruelh and Marie de France, respectively.
[21] All the above advice to noblewomen is from contemporary etiquette books or clerical writers. The trouvère quoted is Robert of Blois, a writer of the thirteenth century.
[22] Students of the Odyssey will recall a similar command which Telemachus addressed to his mother, Penelope. Homeric society and feudal society had many viewpoints in common.
[23] The directions about engaging servants given in mediæval handbooks on domestic economy contain much practical common sense for any age.