Representações de luto e lamentação em fontes medievais peninsulares da Idade Média e início da Idade Moderna

Abstract

This study intends to highlight the depictions of mourning in written and iconographic sources from the late period of the Middle Ages. In the first part of this article, excerpts belonging to the synods, to the chronicles of Fernão Lopes and to the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X were analyzed regarding the ecclesiastical requirements and popular customs. In the second part, the tomb of Gomes Martins Silvestre and the painted planks from the tomb of Sancho Sáiz de Carrillo were also submitted to analysis.

Keywords

• Mourning
• Sources
• Cortege
• Tombs