Sujet

Initial S: A Woman Leaving Her Husband's House; Vidal Mayor, about 1290-1310. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Initial S: A Woman Leaving Her Husband's House; Vidal Mayor, about 1290-1310. Additional Info: This historiated initial S opens a chapter dealing with the rights of a husband or wife to household property. A woman leaves her husband, taking with her a curtain. She appears three times, removing the red drape at the left, then exiting the house, and finally leaning over the drape in her new home at the far right. According to the text, if a woman leaves her husband, he has the legal right to take back both her and his possessions. In the center of the composition, the abandoned husband, accompanied by a bondsman, speaks to the head of the woman's new household about reclaiming his property. The artist astutely used color to make associations among the characters. The husband's clothing and his property are red, while the other man is shown in blue. The wife wears both colors, indicating her conflicted legal status. A woman of the Middle Ages spent much of her life under the guardianship of a man, first her father and then her husband, severely limiting her personal legal rights and economic power.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A78_435

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

40,0Mo (2,7Mo) / 25,6cm x 39,1cm / 3024 x 4622 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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