Rubén PERETÓ RIVAS

Death and Memory in some Texts of Medieval Liturgy

Muerte y memoria en algunos textos de la liturgia medieval

Published in  Ars moriendi. Ideas, ritos e imágenes de la muerte

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The human societies need to build and keep safe the memories of their deaths in order to strength their owns structures and avoid its dissolution by the oblivion. In this paper I want to show the way in which the Medieval society kept the memories of their deaths according the liturgical texts. The issue will be analyze in three parts: the polysemy of the deaths memory, way and places of the commemoration, and the cult of the corpse. I take account the text of the Sacramentarium Gelasianum and the Sarum Missal as well as the the rites of the commendatione animae in use at the St. Augustine Abbey of Canterbury.