PhD in Portuguese Culture from the University of Lisbon (1998), she was a fellow of the CNPq's Newly Doctorate Program at UNESP Araraquara Campus from 1999 to 2001. From 2003 to 2007, she worked as a professor and researcher in the CAPES/PRODOC Program for Supporting Institutional Projects with the Participation of Newly Doctorate Scholars at UNESP Franca Campus. She is a Full Professor of Medieval History at São Paulo State University (UNESP/Franca), and her current research and publications focus on: the writing of history in the Middle Ages; European travel between the 13th and 15th centuries; and forms and expressions of Christian morality in the Iberian kingdoms during the 14th and 15th centuries. She is a Brazilian Corresponding Member of the Portuguese Academy of History; coordinator of the Luso-Brazilian Group Medieval Roots of Modern Brazil; was Principal Investigator of the group Writings on the New Worlds (Thematic Project Grant FAPESP, 20152021), based at UNESP/Franca; and is currently one of the coordinators of this group. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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In the Castile of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the garments and adornments of women have been targeted in a series of prescriptions aimed at their moralization. Monarchs, prosecutors of cities, confessors and treatises claimed that there were many excesses in dress and adorn of women that endangered not only their salvation and their husbands, but also the natural order of thin…
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In the 13th century, the creation of large compilations aimed at synthesizing values to be cultivated and preserved for contemporaries became common among the learned in various Christian kingdoms. These summas sought, on one hand, to present exemplary models of conduct for the faithful and, on the other, to disseminate the knowledge produced up to that time. In this context, two types of…
Between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, recommendations on merciful exercises circulated in the Christian kingdoms based on a significant and heterogeneous set of texts, such as moralizing treatises, confession manuals, synods, legal works and confraternity commitments. In Portugal, specifically, the intensification of the assistance practice occurred mainly as a result of the gre…
In fifteenth-century Portugal, a continued production of writings about the past was promoted within the scope of the royal court, aiming to exalt the great achievements of the nobility and reward them. History, formerly restricted to the monastic production, gained, in such a context, the grounds of the royal houses, starting to be written by men who combined both the occupation of Torre…
In the 15th century Portugal lettered production experienced a significant boost, however, it still remained under the tutelage of the high nobility, whose members left representative work - sometimes in single copies of a certain genre - of what they esteemed for their group and their people. Among those moralizing writings, a few excelled. They were produced by a nobleman whose life was…
Between the XIV and XV centuries, in the European Christian kingdoms, the production of pastoral works written in vernacular language has become increasingly recurrent. They were intended to propose models of behavior and prescriptions regarding ways of contact with the sacred and the absolution of sins. In the kingdom of Portugal, such councils and building models sometimes refer to pain…
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Integrated into the doctoral research, On Miseries and Mercies in Portugal in the 14th and 15th Centuries (process no. 2023/00734-6), the proposed project will be dedicated to mapping reports about the miseries and calamities experienced in the kingdom of Portugal in the 14th and 15th centuries and, from this, question when acts of assistance and mercy were recommended as a way of allevia…
The present project, to be developed together with the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, is part of the Master's research entitled Forms of reparation for evil in the Portugal of the 14th and 15th centuries (process nº 2021/04250-8), which is dedicated to the study and mapping of prescriptions referring to penitential amendments accepted and encouraged in the Portuguese society …
This project integrates the Master's research that is dedicated to the study of the Portuguese presence on the west coast of Africa in the middle of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th century, which aims to analyze the indications of common features between African and European customs described by travelers. Some of those who were sent by the Portuguese crown to those places were…
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