Le « sépulcre des pères » et les « ancêtres ». Notes sur le culte des défunts à l'âge seigneurial
Michel Lauwers
The Sepulchre of the Fathers and Ancestors. Notes on Cult Dead in Feudal Age - Although judged useless as regards faith, funeral rites burials deceased were part Church office became incorporated, especially since Carolingian period, an extensive complex ritual founded « memory ». During eleventh twelfth centuries converging ideas asserted both ancient culture Bible, uses particular to customary societies, practices linked assertion feudal powers gave rise a veritable ancestors cult », well constitution familial sepulchres. Indissociable from some forms exchange, commemorative age are testimonies existence kind social covenant » between two sides lay ecclesiastical ruling class.
Medievales