Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517090142)

It would be absorbing to discover the present feminine attitude toward the profoundest compliment ever paid women by the heart and mind of men in league-the worshipping devotion conceived by Plato and elevated to a living faith in mediaeval France. Through that renaissance of a sublimated passion domnei was regarded as a throne of alabaster by the chosen figures of its service: Melicent, at Bellegarde, waiting for her marriage with King Theodoret, held close an image of Perion made of substance that time was powerless to destroy; and which, in a life of singular violence, where blood hung scarlet before men's eyes like a tapestry, burned in a silver flame untroubled by the fate of her body. It was, to her, a magic that kept her inviolable, perpetually, in spite of marauding fingers, a rose in the blanched perfection of its early flowering.

Author: James Branch Cabell
ISBN-10: 1517090148
ISBN-13: 9781517090142
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2015
Pages: 74
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.15d