What is it about?
Throughout the nineteenth century and up to the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931 the Catholic Church played an essential role with regard to death in Spain: it had the power to decide where the dead were buried. This article analyses the Church’s criteria for denying ecclesiastical burial or claiming the dead for Catholic cemeteries; the ways families, friends, neighbours or political associates of the dead reacted; and the attitude taken by the civil authorities
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Why is it important?
Understand the way of dealing with death is absolutely necesary for undestrand any society in any time
Perspectives
I offer a comparative analyse about the ways of dealing with death in Spain and other european countries in the ninententh century and the first years of Twentieth. I think that´s is a interesting approach which allows us to know better the european societies at that time
Miguel Martorell Linares
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
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This page is a summary of: ‘The Cruellest of all Forms of Coercion’: The Catholic Church and Conflicts around Death and Burial in Spain during the Restoration (1874–1923), European History Quarterly, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0265691417720596.
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