The rude Christian at the target of the Iberian confessor (14th, 15th centuries and beginning of 16th Century)

• Grant number: 14/13125-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): January 01, 2015
• Effective date (End): September 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Acordo de Cooperação: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Susani Silveira Lemos Franca
• Grantee: Leandro Alves Teodoro
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/14786-6 - Writings on new worlds: a history of the construction of moral values in Portuguese, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/22321-1 - The catechetical know in Castile (fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth), BE.EP.PD 15/01953-7 - The layman between catechesis and destruction (Iberian Peninsula - centuries XIV, XV and XVI), BE.EP.PD

Abstract

In the middle of the 14th Century, during more regular synods, Iberian archbishops and bishops started debating about the ways diocesan clergymen should encourage the faithful, regarded as rude and ignorant, to take part more actively in the liturgical life of their diocese. In the writings of these moralists, confessors could find several clues on how to learn to be, besides inquirers, masters of men who disdain the most insignificant principles of the Church, especially the commandments and the faith articles. With emphasis, for in proposals set in catechism, synod constitutions and in confession treaties, the present study tends to inquire through which techniques and means the faithful, regarded as incipient, would need to be forced to internalize the rules decided by the cultivated clergymen from Portugal and Castella between the 14th and 16th Centuries. More precisely, giving continuity to my doctorate work structured around the analyses of established decisions for married males in Portugal during this same period, my goal now consists in inventorying the strategies forged so that confessors managed to soften the actions considered vague and not prudent from the Christian faithful, not only from the Portuguese dioceses but also from Castillian territories. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

LEANDRO ALVES TEODORO. Instruções religiosas para o bem falar (Portugal/Castela - séculos XIV e XV). TEMPO-NITEROI, v. 23, n. 1, p. 126-138, 2017-04-00. (14/13125-9)