Forms of reparation for evil in Portugal in the 14th and 15th centuries

Author(s)

Eduardo Lima de Souza

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Franca. 2023-03-06.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Franca
• Defense date: 2023-02-24
• Advisor: Susani Silveira Lemos França

Abstract

Between the 14th and 15th centuries in European Christian kingdoms, the production of pastoral works written in the vernacular, aimed at clerics and monks, which proposed models of behavior and prescriptions regarding the forms of contact with the sacred and to the absolution of sins; as a rule, these prescriptions reached the common people of the different regions of the kingdom, starting from the fulfillment of the pastoral service of correction of deviations, carried out through confession and preaching. In the case of Portugal, advice and edification sometimes refer to experiences of redemption, sometimes advice and edification from sins are, to the continuous effort of God and the consequences of the kingdom, against the next. References to decorating practices that were designed to perfection by sin and designed to be translated by slip and gestures and sometimes projected or projected. This inquiry, in the target of the research, that the theme of aims has become one of the main objects of the auricular confession promulgated by the Lateran auricular confession of 1215 -, the forms of institutionalization of the evil confession, as the period institutional form of the confession of evil. or satisfaction, accepted and encouraged in Portuguese society at the end of the 14th century and throughout the 15th century. The practice of satisfaction consists of the three goods given by God to man: the goods of the soul, the goods of the body and the goods of fortune. For the goods proposed by suggestions of mercy, the faithful how to encourage, advise, all works, advise, advise, punish, advise and entreat; fasting, the faithful should fast, make pilgrimages, disciplines, abstinence and all other things that afflict the body; for the temporal goods of fortune, the believer should give alms and perform all the other seven works of corporal mercy: visit, give food, give drink, redeem, dress, give lodging and enter the neighbor. From the survey, it will be examined how different situations or circumstances in which these practices of satisfaction were designed to improve the soul and social purpose, with the purpose of understanding the moral foundations for the accepted and ordered errors defended. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 21/04250-8 - Ways of reparation of the evil in Portugal in the XIV and XV centuries
• Grantee: Eduardo Lima de Souza
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master