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- Title
«Vidas», «Histórias», «Crónicas», «Tratados»: sobre a escrita e a edição de hagiografias e de biografias devotas em Portugal (séculos XVI-XVIII).
- Authors
ALMEIDA MENDES, PAULA
- Abstract
On the background of this study is the writing and publishing of «Lives» of saints, blessed, venerable and men and women considered «illustrious in virtue». The study aims at presenting a corpus of this literature – particularly individual hagiographies and devout biographies – trying to draw attention to aspects related to the field of the Catholic Reformation in the cult of saints, their official recognition and the encoding of multiple and different models of «holiness»– or, at least, of perfection – under a strategy of discipline and modelling of behaviours and gestures proposed to the faithful.
- Subjects
CHRISTIAN literature publishing; CHRISTIAN hagiography; BIOGRAPHIES of Christian saints; CATHOLIC spiritual life; HISTORY of Catholic Church doctrines; COUNTER-Reformation; HISTORY
- Publication
Lusitania Sacra, 2013, Vol 28, p173
- ISSN
0076-1508
- Publication type
Article