Práticas de bem morrer e o uso da mortalha em Sergipe - Nordeste - Brasil - séculos XVIII e XIX

Abstract

Select clothing burial itself always raised expectations. The fear of death and of what was then made men and women cared to prepare, in advance, the clothing of the passage of material life to spiritual. In the collective imagination, Religious Christian predominated the idea that the use of the shroud facilitate the entry of the soul in God's Kingdom. The objective was to verify the choice of the shroud in Sergipe, from 1780- 1850, in 155 wills "to post mortem", the Judicial Archives of the State of Sergipe (AJES). Bibliographical and documentary research, based on the history of mentalities and content analysis method. The request of the shroud was made in this documentation, ranging from clothing preferred saints and invocations of Our Lady, to angel costumes, papal robes and white and black shrouds.