The five senses in the scope of the Portuguese pastoral production of the XV th century

• Grant number: 21/12786-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2021
• End date: September 30, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Alves Teodoro
• Grantee: Marina Luz de Carvalho
• 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 between the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century by a Cistercian monk, the treatise Horto do Esposo is a genuinely Portuguese work and rich in descriptions of devotional practices. Although produced in a monastic environment, this book provides elements to analyze the formation expected not only for religious or clerics, but for the faithful in general.With emphasis on this document, this research will analyze the extent to which the vigil of the five senses was configured as a catechetical lesson. In other words, by serializing Portuguese prescriptions and exempla, this study will seek to examine the role given to the correction ofsensory impressions in Portuguese pastoral games of the late Middle Ages. (AU)