Death, Loss of Identity and the Fear They Evoke in Castilian Society During the Later Middle Ages

One of the ways to approach the study of mentalities is through the analysis of human feelings. This study examines death and the loss of identity, two common fears in Castile in the Later Middle Ages, through their relationship and material expression, both literary and iconographic. Our focus will be on the fifteenth century, a time of deep transformations in which we encounter a shift in the meaning of these two aspects of life and, thus, of the fear they evoke.