Funeral rites of the Portuguese monarchs from the 14th to the 17th centuries
Abstract
This paper analyses the evolution of the funeral rites of the members of the Portuguese Royal court between the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the wills of kings, queens, and princes, we seek to understand their main concerns and the means they used to protect themselves in the face of death. The socio-political frameworks of the chronology under consideration provides an exciting perspective on the imaginary of death, with disparate realities that span from the Black Death to the Counter-Reformation. Thus, the main objective of this articles is to understand the evolution of the rituals of dying and death within the Portuguese royal household, trying to identify possible shifts in the paradigm, or, on the other hand, the immutability and persistence of the imaginary of death over the centuries.
Keywords: funeral ritual; royal court; imaginary of death; wills.
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