Published in Paradise, Purgatory and Hell: the Religiosity in the Middle Ages

Keywords: Keywords: Death, Literature in Middle High German, Rites of Passage.

There are several discourses about death in the XII century. In addition to the discourses disseminated by the clergy and religious literature, the Middle High German literature also covered the theme in its own manner. Accordingly, the work Armer Heinrich by Hartmann von Aue re-elaborates the knowledge about death and the transience of life, which are presented and discussed here.