Keyword: Women
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
Suttee (1878)
from: Murray Smith, D. Round the World: A Story of Travel Compiled from the Narrative of Ida Pfeiffer, London, 1878
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Suttee Pillar at a Benares Burning Ghat (19th century)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Sutteeism on the Banks of the Ganges (1860)
from: Montgomery Martin, R. The Indian Empire, c.1860
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
The Funeral Pile of a Husband (1810)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
The sacrifice of Polyxena (1401)
from: Boccaccio, Giovanni, De claris mulieribus, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12420, fol. 56v
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Vedova di un indiano (1845)
from: Atlante Illustrato, Florence, 1845
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Vedova indiana che si abbrucia (1816)
from: Ferrario, G. Il costumo antico e moderno, Florence, c.1816
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Veuve hindoue allant au bucher (1797)
from: Abdul-Kerym, Voyage de l'Inde a la Mekke, ca. 1797
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Veuve indouve hallant (1825)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Woman Committing Sati (17th century)
Harvard Art Museum, Boston (https://harvardartmuseums.org/art/165399)
Woman Going to Burn (1811)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
Woman Thown into the Pyre (1563)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 99
Woman Throwing Herself in the Pyre (1699)
from: Banerjee, P. Burning Women, New York, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, p. 94
What self-immolation means to Afghan women
in: Peace Review, v. 23 (2011), issue 1: pp.45-51.
in: Burning Women Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India, pp.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Women in India: The “Sati” and the Harem
in: India in Early Modern English Travel Writings, pp. 209-238
Leiden: Brill, 2012.