Death in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Ideologies of the Elites

Differences in attitudes to death and dying in two distinct social classes, the ecclesiastics and the nobility.

The theory of the three estates made clear distinctions between the functions of the two estates which comprised the elite of medieval society: the oradores (ecclesiastics) and the defensores (warriors or nobility).They had different lifestyles, clothing and ways of thinking about life. W...