What self-immolation means to Afghan women
in: Peace Review, v. 23 (2011), issue 1: pp.45-51.
Topics:
3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th Century) 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12th-20th Century)
3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th Century) 5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12th-20th Century)
Edited by: Luca Aldo Patrizi
Related Documents:
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)
from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
The Fatal Sacrifice (18th Century)
Wellcome Collection, London
Satī. The bride immolates herself on the funeral pyre (1657)
from: Isfahan, Iran
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Suicide of a Woman on an Altar (1532)
from: Francesco Petrarca, Von der Artzney bayder Glück, des guten vnd widerwertigen: unnd weß sich ain yeder inn Gelück und Unglück halten sol; auß dem Lateinischen in das Teutsch gezogen, Augspurg, Steyner, 1532, p. clviii
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam