Fonti e ricerche per la storia della santità in Portogallo nel Seicento

Autore: Zulmira Santos
In: Sanctorum. 10, 2013
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Abstract

Fonti e ricerche per la storia della santità in Portogallo nel Seicento
This study aims to present an overview of a set of sources to the holiness in Portugal, in the 17th Century, paying particular attention to the printed production over the century – religious chronicles, biographies, devout lives, collections of «saints»’ lives, «martyrologies» – in order to disclose the Portuguese hagiographic overview of that time, taking into account the period of dual monarchy between 1580 and 1640, using the most recent literature on this issue. The author seeks to show that the “hagiographic literature” produced in Portugal and its overseas territories, especially in the 17th Century, reflects not only the identity effort of the religious orders in the building of an «internal» holiness, but also, in the case of other texts, concerns of territorial and cultural order, valuing the construction of a Portuguese sacred space.