Huellas de Oriente en las representaciones macabras de la Europa medieval: el caso catalán
Abstract
The similarity between two folkloric expressions, some macabre dances still celebrated in Tibet in the context of Buddhist ceremonies, and the Verges death dance at Catalonia, included among the Christian Passion episodes, is worth paying attention to. In both of them the presence of skeletons brings us back to the origins of the Death Dance and its spread throughout Christian Europe in the late Middle Ages, as files and documents, as well as iconography and the preserved dramatic texts can attest. This article presents some Catalonian examples so far hardly taken into account within the European framework, and proposes hypotheses on the birth of this genre as related to the Franciscan friars and their midwife role.
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