ISBN:
9781846150630
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 211 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Colección Támesis 205
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
393/.0946/309024
Keywords:
Geschichte 1400-1500
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Death / Spain / Castile / History / 15th century
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Death / Religious aspects
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Death / Social aspects / Spain / Castile
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Funeral rites and ceremonies / Spain / Castile / History / 15th century
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Mourning customs / Spain / Castile / History / 15th century
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Tod
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Ideologie
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Spanisch
;
Tod
;
Literatur
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Spanien
;
Spanisch
;
Literatur
;
Tod
;
Ideologie
;
Geschichte 1400-1500
;
Spanisch
;
Literatur
;
Tod
;
Geschichte 1400-1500
;
Spanien
;
Tod
;
Ideologie
;
Geschichte 1400-1500
Abstract:
Differences in attitudes to death and dying in two distinct social classes, the ecclesiastics and the nobility. The theory of the three estates made clear distinctions between the functions of the two estates which comprised the elite of medieval society: the oradores (ecclesiastics) and the defensores (warriors or nobility).They had different lifestyles, clothing and ways of thinking about life. With regard to death, the responses dictated by Christian theology conflicted with the demands of the defensor ideology, based on the defence of individual honour, the pursuit of fama and the display of earthly power. This book charts the progress of the dying from their preparations for death, through their 'good' or 'bad' deaths, to their burials and otherworldly fates and also analyses the responses of the bereaved. Through the use of pre-fifteenth-century texts it is possible to demonstrate that the conflict between the orador and defensor ideologies did not begin in the fifteenth century, but rather had a much older origin, and it is suggested that the conflict continued after 1500. Textual sources include the Siete partidas, wills, chronicles, religious works such as the Arte de bien morir and literary works such as Cárcel de Amor and Celestina
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DOI:
10.1017/9781846150630
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