Von den gemäheln der jüngling menie geheyssen · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von den gemäheln der jüngling menie geheyssen
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Greek Mythology; Wives of the Minyans; Minyans
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Sparta; Ancient Greece; Lacedaemon
Description: The engraving depicts a man guarding a jail, with three figures standing behind the bars of the jail and three figures leaving the jail wearing heavy garments. The three figures leaving the jail are Minyan men who had been sentenced to death for their crimes against their city. Boccaccio explains that the Minyans wives had gone into the jail and swapped clothing with their husbands and switched places with them. The men in disguises slipped past the guards unnoticed and into freedom, while their wives were executed in their place. Boccaccio explains that he chose to write on these women to demonstrate that there is no greater love than a wife’s love for her husband.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:17988
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg; 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_17988_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Greek Mythology; Wives of the Minyans; Minyans

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