Death in fifteenth century Castile : ideologies of the elites /
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.
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| Formatua: | Licensed eBooks |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa gaztelania |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
Tamesis
2004.
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| Saila: | Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ;
205 |
| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdnvj |
Aurkibidea:
- 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
- Conclusion
- IV. The bereaved
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion
- V. conclusion
- Introduction
- Oradores
- Defensores
- Conflict and co-existence.