• Grant number: 21/10468-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: April 01, 2022
• End date: March 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Alves Teodoro
• Grantee: Leandro Alves Teodoro
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/11111-9 - The teaching of the Christian faith in the Iberian Peninsula (14th, 15th and 16 centuries), AP.JP

Abstract

Written by Jean-Claude Schmitt, Leandro Alves Teodoro and Pablo Martín Prieto, the presented book questions the strength attributed to the individual in the evangelization process, with emphasis on personal choices and the singularities of certain groups in the process of naturalization of the Christian faith in the 13th century to the 15th. The objective is not to make a history of the laity or of the Church's missionary action, as many other works from the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st have already proposed, but to analyze the performance of the convert in this scenario of reinvigoration of the Christian pastoral in which the faithful were persuaded to redefine your everyday actions. Far from departing from the clergy/layman binomial or from investigating the origin of the modern individual in the Middle Ages, the aim of the three chapters of this work is to carry out a history of the will or the limits of individual choice in these times of advance of a pastoral march in parishes from different regions of the territory that now comprises Europe. Therefore, each chapter develops from a common starting point: to analyze to what extent the layman's will has proved to be preponderant for the realization of conversion. (AU)