Cy sensuit histoire de la feme drigiagonte roy des gaulgres · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de la feme drigiagonte roy des gaulgres
Subject: Famous Women; Important Women; Important Queens; Vengeance; Queen of Galatians; Rape
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Asia Minor
Description: This illumination depicts the queen of the Galatians kneeling in the centre of the image holding a decapitated head. This woman’s name is unknown; however, she is the wife of King Drigiagon. After being taken as a captive by Roman enemies, the Galatian queen was defiled by a Roman centurion. To seek her vengeance, once she was freed through ransom, she ordered her servant to decapitate the centurion. The Galatian queen is holding the severed head as she presents it to her husband to prove that she was defiled by this man.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20059
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20059_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Important Women; Important Queens; Vengeance; Queen of Galatians; Rape