La politique funéraire des frères prêcheurs et mineurs au XIIIe siècle : réflexions autour des sources normatives

Haude Morvan (1, 2)

1 Ausonius-Institut de recherche sur l'Antiquité et le Moyen âge
2 LASCARBX - LabEx Sciences archéologiques de Bordeaux

It is a debated topic in historic and artistic studies to determinate if friars Minor and Preachers had a passive or active role in the increasing presence of burials in their convents, already from the 1240s. The article considers this question with an analysis based first of all on the general and provincial chapters of both orders in the 13th century. Even if the chapters urge convents not to accept burials, they don’t motivate those prohibitions by sumptuary reasons but by the will to avoid fights with parish clergy and liturgical overcharge. At the same time, both orders were defending their jus sepulture and both used burials, in particular the ones of prestigious people, as a guarantee of their legitimacy. We find a policy on the localisation and the typology of the tombs only by the Preachers, with an explicit attempt to reserve the burial in the ecclesia fratrum for illustrious members of the order.

Mots clés: XIIIème siècle; Normes funéraires; Ordres mendiants

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Archéologie et Préhistoire; Histoire

Haude Morvan. La politique funéraire des frères prêcheurs et mineurs au XIIIe siècle : réflexions autour des sources normatives. Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia, 2014, 68 (1), pp.11-43. ⟨hal-01792452⟩