Death in fifteenth century Castile : ideologies of the elites / Laura Vivanco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vivanco, Laura, 1974-

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 205.

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 205

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Spain--Castile--History--15th century.

Death.

Death--Spain--Castile--Religious aspects.

Death--Social aspects--Spain--Castile.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Spain--Castile--History--15th century.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Mourning customs--Spain--Castile--History--15th century.

Mourning customs.

History.

Death--Social aspects.

Spain--Castile.

Physical Description:

vi, 211 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, [2004]

Contents:

I. Introduction

II. Types of death

Introduction

The oradores: Christianity and the good death

The defensores: good death in battle

Bad deaths

Sudden deaths as a result of an outside agency

Deaths imposed by the judicial system

Self-inflicted deaths

Conclusion

III. The afterlife

The oradores and the afterlife

God and the devil

Heaven, hell, and purgatory

The defensores and the vida de la fama

IV. The bereaved

The oradores: ritual and remembrance

Defensores and the mingling of secular and sacred in funeral customs

Consolation and the oradores' opposition to excessive grief

Fortaleza, grief, and the defensores

Grief and gender

Grief and social status

V. Conclusion

Oradores

Defensores

Conflict and co-existence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-204) and index.

ISBN:

1855661004

OCLC:

53793389