«A muertos y a idos, pocos amigos». Los costes indirectos de la muerte a través del proceso contra los albaceas del doctor Antonio de Solís, profesor de Leyes en la Universidad de Salamanca (†1592)

Abstract

This research has a double aim. On the one hand, to analyze some aspects of the funerary world of university professors in the Early Modern Period, a social group practically devoid of this type of studies unlike other widely treated groups. On the other hand, we seek to reflect on the conflict as part of the attitudes towards the death of the society of the time, an event that interferes with other individuals, directly or indirectly. Some of these interpersonal relationships around death can be understood from a purely legal or economic perspective, while others would be linked to the degree of friendship, closeness, interest, etc. with respect to the deceased. All these issues have been termed as indirect costs of death. In short, death is approached from otherness, that is, from the point of view of the subjects surrounding the individual who died.