Criticism of the prevarication sin in 15th-century Castile

• Grant number: 22/15093-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2022
• End date: July 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Alves Teodoro
• Grantee: Thiago Pereira Camargo Comelli
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , 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
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/05269-0 - La Summa Confessionale Llamada Defecerunt and the amendment of the sin of prevarication in the Castilian secular and ecclesiastical judges of the fifteenth century, BE.EP.IC

Abstract

The Young Researcher project "The teaching of the Christian faith in the Iberian Peninsula" has as one of its fronts the study of language amendment in Iberian society at the end of the Middle Ages. As the beginning of this objective, the present Scientific Initiation project will analyze lessons about a specific language sin, or prevarication. More precisely, with emphasis on the Summa de confession called Defecerunt, by Fr. Antonino (1389-1459) and in the Ordenanzas a los abogados y procuradores, enacted on February 14, 1495, this research will question to what extent the criticism of the lawyers' performance in the lawsuits helped to combat the sin of prevarication.