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Le corps introuvable. Mort et culture maritime (XVIe-XIXe siècles)

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  • Alain Cabantous

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[fre] Résumé Malgré de sensibles variations selon les types de navigation et les époques, l'irruption permanente, violente, inattendue de la mort constitue une donnée essentielle pour les populations navigantes. Au delà des chiffres de la mortalité, ce travail voudrait tenter de percevoir les aspects d'une autre culture macabre. L'absence de prêtre à bord, la privation des sacrements, l'engloutissement des corps en dessinent les contours. Mais cette culture se manifesta aussi à terre, au bord des rivages, dans la mesure où, familles, villages, communautés de métier portaient le souci de ces morts sans sépulture, de ces corps perdus à jamais en des lieux inconnaissables. Pour eux et leur salut, l'Europe maritime eut recours, sous des formes très diverses, à des rites compensatoires, signes d'un indispensable souvenir. [eng] Abstract Despite noticeable variations in the kinds of navigation and periods, the permanent violent and unexpected irruption of death provides essential data on seagoing populations. This work looks beyond the figures for mortality in an attempt to perceive aspects of another macabre culture. The absence of a priest on board, deprivation of the sacrements, bodies being swallowed up byt the sea are the main factors. But this culture also appears on land, in coastal areas, insofar as families, villages and communities connected with the sea bore the anxiety for those dead in unmarked graves, those bodies lost for ever in unknowable places. For them and their salvation, maritime Europe had recourse to varying forms of compensatory rites, signs of indispensable rememberance.

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  • Alain Cabantous, 1990. "Le corps introuvable. Mort et culture maritime (XVIe-XIXe siècles)," Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 9(3), pages 321-336.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_1990_num_9_3_1550
    DOI: 10.3406/hes.1990.1550
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