Written to instruct the clergy and guide the faithful: the treaty of confession Castilian (secs XIV and XV)

• Grant number: 16/02154-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2016
• End date: March 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Susani Silveira Lemos Franca
• Grantee: Rodolfo Nogueira da Cruz
• 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

Abstract

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the kingdom of Castile, the rules governing the clergy, religious or regular, prescribed that this appeared, in society, as an example to be followed by those who would lead a virtuous life. At that time, the conduct of priestly practices, ordering the conduct of the clergy and faithful, and the production of own documents to the correction of clerical deviations came to be regarded as decisive, so that speaking and writing as well as canon law and reflections on the sacraments have become key parts in these initiatives to regulate the clergy conduct aimed ultimately the faithful. In this study, only the first treated in spanish vernacular aimed at moralizing the so-called rude clergy - that considered abated from science and oblivious to the canons of the Church - will be analyzed, as they focus standards, prescriptions and advice as to the ways that the clergy should be guided in order to guide the avowed. From these treaties, we interrogate about the elements and vocabularies that come together in the development of an exemplary image of the clergy, with emphasis on the negative actions highlighted by theologians and canonists in the systematization of virtuous. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CRUZ, Rodolfo Nogueira da. Of the example to be built: conduct and posture of secular clerics in Castile from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Franca Franca.