resumoEste artigo analisa ideais de prática religiosa, perfis humanos e vivências que emergem de escritos versando sobre vida monástica feminina do ramo clariano em Portugal, nos séculos XVII e XVIII. O quadro de comportamentos tidos como exemplares pelas religiosas, nas crônicas conventuais e nos textos de aconselhamento, é aqui comparado com as prescrições constantes nos regulamentos, concebidos sob o controle da instituição eclesiástica. Considera-se que as diferenças entre os modelos criados pelas monjas e o mais institucional da Igreja expressam as formas particulares de apropriação, por estas, das regras a que estavam submetidas.
palavras-chavesModelos de vida religiosa • experiência conventual feminina • Portugal nos séculos XVII e XVIII.
abstractThis article is concerned with models of religious practice, human profiles and experience that emerge from writings on Franciscan women's monastic life in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Portugal. The behaviour regarded as exemplary by the cloistered women, in chronicles of monasteries and in counselling texts addressed to the sisters, is compared with prescriptions from the rules conceived under Church control. We consider that the differences between the models created by the nuns and the more institutional paradigm that is found in Church regulations express the particular forms of interpretation, by the sisters, of the rules to which they were submitted.
KeywordsModels of religious life • women's experience in convents • Seventeenth and eighteenth-century Portugal.1 O presente artigo foi escrito com base em investigação que recebeu apoio financeiro do CNPq, com bolsa de produtividade em pesquisa.
Em meio a uma irrupção da cronística franciscana nas primeiras décadas do século XVII, fr. Manuel da Ilha, cronista da província de Santo Antônio de Portugal, produziu uma narrativa sobre a trajetória histórica da custódia de Santo Antônio do Brasil. Este artigo busca localizar este relato em meio a tendências que então orientavam a historiografia franciscana, como a adequação a um crescente afã documentalista, que exigia que relatos dessa natureza fossem afiançados em papéis e arquivos, e a preocupação com rivalidades que grassavam entre as ordens religiosas. No centro da análise, estão as conexões estabelecidas entre a atuação da ordem e os desígnios da Coroa portuguesa, tanto num plano identitário mais abstrato e conceitual quanto na realidade experimentada nas fronteiras do império.
This article aims to examine the attitudes of friar Masseu de São Francisco, of the Order of Friars Minor of Portugal, before the Holy Office of Lisbon between 1700 and 1701. He was prosecuted for obstructing the work of the court and for continuing to give credit and making public the visions and revelations of the recently deceased Maria de Jesus, who had been previously convicted for fraud by the Holy Office. Friar Masseu opted for a line of argument that linked his defense to the defense of the memory of that beata. To this end, instead of answering the questions given by the inquisitors, he turned over notebooks in which he described and justified Maria de Jesus’ virtues. By doing so, he continued his old plan of writing the life of Maria de Jesus, in which the visions that for decades she said she had received from Heaven would be recognized as true
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