The death of the king was always one of the most significant events in the history of a rule. He gave the impetus to various symbolic representations, to produce a rich literature and extensive iconography. This volume brings together a series of papers which dealing with historical, iconographic and literary aspects of the king's end of life: the legendary figure of Alexander the Great, the different stories about the death of Emperor Henry VII, the circumstances of the demise of French and Castilian kings or the paradigmatic cases of Boccaccio; thirteen contributions that illustrate the richness of this subject in the medieval imagination.