RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Huellas de oriente en las representaciones macabras de la Europa medieval: el caso catalán A1 Massip Bonet, Francesc K1 Danza Macabra K1 teatro medieval K1 folklore de la muerte K1 Tíbet K1 Cataluña K1 Árbol de la Muerte K1 Rueda de Fortuna AB The similarity between two folkloric expressions, some macabre dances still celebrated in Tibetin the context of Buddhist ceremonies, and the Verges death dance at Catalonia, includedamong the Christian Passion episodes, is worth paying attention to. In both of them the presenceof skeletons brings us back to the origins of the Death Dance and its spread throughoutChristian Europe in the late Middle Ages, as files and documents, as well as iconographyand the preserved dramatic texts can attest. This article presents some Catalonian examplesso far hardly taken into account within the European framework, and proposes hypotheseson the birth of this genre as related to the Franciscan friars and their midwife role. PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones SN 137-161 YR 2011 FD 2011 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/12024 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/12024 LA es DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 28-mar-2024