http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/bonne-de-luxembourg Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 04 May 2026 08:45:01 -0400 Mon, 04 May 2026 08:45:01 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/555/bonne-de-luxembourgs-three-living-and-three-dead-abnormal-decomposition By Candace A. Reilly - In fourteenth century Medieval Europe the theme of the macabre was commonplace as seen by an overwhelming obsession of cadaverous legends and images created prior to the Black Plague. Illustrations and tales of corpses cavorting with the living were prevalent; however an image of three decomposing cadavers was a rare commodity to behold by anyone outside of Italy. The legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead began to be disseminated in the late thirteenth century in France from the popular poem by Baudoin de Condé (Sandeno). In the Bonne de Luxembourg's Psalter and Hours the illuminator... Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:12 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/555/bonne-de-luxembourgs-three-living-and-three-dead-abnormal-decomposition