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Medievalista
On-line version ISSN 1646-740X
Abstract
LOPES, Ana Mafalda Pereira. Mourning in Portugal: from the Court to the Common People (15th-16th centuries). Med_on [online]. 2017, n.22, pp.1-35. ISSN 1646-740X.
The following study casts a brief look at the rituals of mourning within the perspective of the History of the Emotions, a recent but relevant historical field that intends to interpret under a new light habits and actions from the past. We will analyze the concepts and practices of mourning and their evolution throughout the Early Modern period, by reviewing the contents mainly of royal chronicles, inserting the narratives of mourning in their political contexts. Our study suggests that, at least among court circles, there was a tendency towards the privatization of pain, through the progressive disappearance of violent expressions of emotion, while the latter remained mostly unaltered among the common people
Keywords : Rites of mourning; history of emotions; death; dynastic crises.