Death character in the literature of the century XIV to the XVI century

La muerte personaje en la literatura del siglo XIV al siglo XVI

With the aim of describing the change in the representations of the charac- ter representation of death between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries in the European literature, and from a research of type documentary, two types of texts are analyzed: the originals in which death appear as a character, and second, the literature arising from several international meetings on death in the Middle Ages. This work presents the change of perspective on death with several events that shape it: the rise of Renaissance humanism, with the ante- cedent of the work of Petrarca; the black plague that decimated a third of the European population, together with the last crusades; the Protestant Refor- mation and the Council of Trent which seeks to respond to doctrinal proposals and criticisms. The death and the moral sense of the character representation of death.