Title

The Abbess of Coldingham Monastery self-mutilating to avoid rape by Viking invaders', 1773.

Caption

The Abbess of Coldingham Monastery cutting of her nose & upper lip as an example for her Nuns to follow, to prevent being ravished by the Danes', 1773. Aebbe of Coldingham (died 870), best known for an act of self-mutilation to avoid rape by Viking invaders. After Samuel Wale (1721-1786). From "A New and Complete History of England, From the Earliest Period of Authentic Intelligence to the Present Time", by Temple Sydney. [J. Cooke, London, 1773]

Date

1773

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F20_054

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

65,1Mb (4,1Mb) / 12,9in x 19,6in / 3867 x 5883 (300dpi)

Keywords

engraving portrait exterior outdoors England female women woman people face interior religious arts monastery country religion frame body bodies book English Scotland decorative Christianity nun text location century inside bravery precaution literature abbey lady concept B&W MONOCHROME metaphor framed mutilation titled Day Indoors black & white black and white B W disfigured 18th century abbess Eighteenth Century history historic Scottish Borders The Print Collector 9th century leading by example self-mutilation TGN the body illustration Samuel Wale outside engraving portrait mutilated Charles Grignion C Grignion Temple Cooke Sydney Berwickshire Grignion Charles Coldingham J Cooke Wale Samuel J. J J. Cooke New and Complete History of England Sydney Temple Charles Grignion the Elder Coldingham Aebbe of Coldingham Aebbe of Abb of Coldingham Ebbe of Coldingham