Les femmes des Ménies ont pris la place de leurs maris en prison · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Les femmes des Ménies ont pris la place de leurs maris en prison
Subject: Jail; Bravery; Loyalty; Minyans; Crime
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Lacedaemonia
Description: When the Minyan men committed crime, they were sent to jail and ordered to be put to death. Their wives, the Minyan women, had a plan – they would take their husband’s places in jail. When the wives went to visit their husbands, they immediately switched clothing with them, allowing the husbands to escape without being caught. This is represented in the photo, with the men escaping in their wives’ clothing on the left, and the wives in jail in their husbands’ clothing on the right.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19876
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19876_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Jail; Bravery; Loyalty; Minyans; Crime