>A detail which I'm trying to follow up is the contemporary
>report (the source of which I still have to check out) that
>when Pulci died he was buried in unconsecrated ground. What
>would this signify - i.e. what were the grounds on which
>people were denied Christian burial in the 15th c? I wonder
>if the collective wisdom of the Medieval-Religion list
>could come up with anything?
>Well, could it? I hope so!
>Many thanks,
>George
There were some reasons to refuse to someone to be buried in unconsecrated ground:
Being a reluctant heretic of course, but also the reputation of having comitted suicide or even
- in some cases - the fact of being homosexual. There must have been many more, but having no
convenient books at hand to quote from or even refert to, I hope that one of these will match.
Anyway, I forward the ball to the other dear and illuminati members of the list.
Cheers
Niklaus
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