Duše nevinná stává se andělem. Dětské hroby jako prostředek komunikace mezi světem pozemským i záhrobním | An innocent soul becomes an angel. Children’s graves as a means of communication between the earthly world and the netherworld
Graves of infants and children belong to a specific category of medieval and modern-age burial culture. The relationships between survivors and deceased children have been complex throughout the Christian period presenting, in many respects, an unresolved issue, in which the fundamental Christian...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | ces |
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Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Historie - Otázky - Problémy |
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| Online Access: | https://historieotazkyproblemy.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2019/11/Martin_Cechura_52-62.pdf |
| Summary: | Graves of infants and children belong to a specific category of medieval and modern-age burial culture. The relationships between survivors and deceased children have been complex throughout
the Christian period presenting, in many respects, an unresolved issue, in which the fundamental
Christian rules and the simple emotional relationship of parents to children were in conflict. An expression of this relationship can be seen in a number of written, iconographic, and archaeological
sources in past societies and it represents an interesting topic for a widely-focused interdisciplinary
study. The graves of new-born infants are one of the few groups that had a privileged position in the
cemetery; the only other such category being perhaps people outcast from Christian society. It is on
the example of the graves of children that we can observe the transformations of funeral customs
and the grave as a means of different systems of communication — between the world of the living
and the dead, between the dead, and between the survivors. |
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| ISSN: | 1804-1132 2336-6672 |