Les femmes Cimbres se sont pendues au-dessus des cadavres de leurs enfants · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Les femmes Cimbres se sont pendues au-dessus des cadavres de leurs enfants
Subject: War; Maternal; Infanticide; Romans; Murder; Suicide
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Cimbri
Description: After seeing the slaughter of the Cimbrian men, the Cimbrian women would not allow themselves or their children to be caught or killed by the Romans. They first killed their children, and then used the ropes and reins of horses found in the shelter they had built to hang themselves. In the image, the dead children are seen lying on the ground, with their mothers hanged in the trees above them.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20211
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20211_OBJ.png