Des femmes de mesmes qui surent compagnon Jason · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Des femmes de mesmes qui surent compagnon Jason
Subject: Devotion; Important Women; Famous Women; Jason; Jason and the Argonauts; Minyans; Wives of the Minyans
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Lacemaedon; Sparta
Description: This illumination depicts the wives of the Minyans, who were companions to Jason. The wives of the Minyans had devised a plan to save their husbands from execution. They had gone into the jail cell where their husbands were kept, and quickly swapped clothing with them so that their husbands were dressed in womens clothing. The men walked out to freedom, and the wives took the place of their husbands in execution. Boccaccio wrote on these women to highlight their devotion to their husbands, and their courage for condemning themselves to save their loved ones.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17149
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17149_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Devotion; Important Women; Famous Women; Jason; Jason and the Argonauts; Minyans; Wives of the Minyans

Media: mta_17149_OBJ.jpg