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

Woodbridge, Suffolk : Tamesis, 2004.

vi, 211 pages ; 24 cm.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-204) and index.

English and Spanish.