A Envolvente da Morte no contexto das Crises de Mortalidade em Lisboa (2.ª Metade do Séc. XVI – inícios do Séc. XVII)

Examining the History of the city of Lisbon through the study of the 16th-18th centuries parish death records reveals a very interesting narrative of death. This narrative can be considered by a double perspective. On one hand, it can be seen as part of the everyday life connected to the preparation for afterlife, the definition of “local”, the last wills of people and the social actors involved - the cemetery, the testaments, the confraternities -, and the funerary practices with a particular focus on the transformation of the sepulture from being part of the sacred temple to the public necropolis. On the other hand, I will study the extraordinary mortality in a comparative perspective and by a differential and explorative analysis of the data preserved in the urban parishes, which were inserted in a context where periodic epidemic outbreaks always caused great disorders, social alarm and an enraptured rise in the number of deads. To achieve these objectives, I will focus on the analysis of the Great Plague of 1569 and the Little Plague of 1698, both occurring during mortality crises of greater chronological amplitud