Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Title: Two Scenes from Der Busant [The Buzzard]
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  • Description: A scene from "Der Busant", a fourteenth-century romance that recounts the love affair of an English prince and a French princess. Here the prince has gone mad after losing the princess in the forest (his body is hairy like that of the medieval Wildman). The princess rides off alone and meets a miller who offers her refuge.
  • Source: Wikimedia Commons
  • Rights: Public domain
  • Subject (See Also): Der Busant [The Buzzard], Alsatian Poem Romance, Literary Genre Wildman
  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
  • Date: 1480-1490
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  • Current Location: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1985.358
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  • Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Textiles
  • Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Linen warp; Wool; Silk; Linen; Cotton; Metallic wefts; Tapestries
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  • Height/Width/Length(cm): 79 cm/113 cm/
  • Inscription: On princess's banderole: Ich [...] ete frouge ich biten dich dz du durch got beherbergestz mich [I (...) ask, I beg of you that you may with God's help give me shelter.] On miller's banderole: gern[als?] armer man kein er ich uch erbieten kan [Willingly (
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