The Seven
Arts Will Be Found Enumerated In The Verses Of Tzetzes (Chil.
XI.
525),
and allusions to them in the mediaeval romances are endless. Thus, in one
of the "Gestes d'Alexandre," a chapter is headed "Comment Aristotle
aprent a Alixandre les Sept Arts." In the tale of the Seven Wise Masters,
Diocletian selects that number of tutors for his son, each to instruct him
in one of the Seven Arts. In the romance of Erec and Eneide we have a
dress on which the fairies had portrayed the Seven Arts (Franc. Michel,
Recherches, etc. II. 82); in the Roman de Mahommet the young impostor
is master of all the seven. There is one mediaeval poem called the
Marriage of the Seven Arts, and another called the Battle of the Seven
Arts. (See also Dante, Convito, Trat. II. c. 14; Not. et Ex. V., 491
seqq.)
NOTE 3. - The Chinghizide Princes were eminently liberal - or indifferent -
in religion; and even after they became Mahomedan, which, however, the
Eastern branch never did, they were rarely and only by brief fits
persecutors. Hence there was scarcely one of the non-Mahomedan Khans of
whose conversion to Christianity there were not stories spread. The first
rumours of Chinghiz in the West were as of a Christian conqueror; tales
may be found of the Christianity of Chagatai, Hulaku, Abaka, Arghun,
Baidu, Ghazan, Sartak, Kuyuk, Mangu, Kublai, and one or two of the
latter's successors in China, all probably false, with one or two doubtful
exceptions.
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