Ubicación de los enterramientos y el sagrario. El caso de Estella

Abstract

In the XI and XII centuries, the leading personalities of Navarran society cultivated the taste for burial at locations in which significant relics of martyrs and saints were kept.
Until the XII century, they were buried in the atria of churches. In the XII century, however, a custom until then forbidden began to take hold: that of being buried inside churches.
The aim of the present article is to reveal information regarding a variant of this custom: being buried beside the tabernacle. Written evidence of this practice regarding burials which took place in the first half of the XV century has been found in Estella. Burials of this kind, however, can be observed throughout the XV and XVI centuries...