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Tomando como campo de observação a cidade de Évora, o presente artigo procura analisar o percurso das várias experiências religiosas não regulares protagonizadas por mulheres, no interior da urbe, ao longo do século XV. O registo, nos livros de aniversários da Sé de Évora, de várias mulheres pobres ou reclusas que aí se fizeram sepultar e confiaram aos seus clérigos a intercessão pelas suas almas, é o pretexto para analisar a forte implementação, na cidade, destes grupos femininos adeptos da pobre vida, a sua evolução ao longo da centúria e a inflexão, em finais da centúria, conducente à sua gradual institucionalização e conversão em comunidades monásticas regulares. O protagonismo feminino assumido no apoio ou na adesão a estes grupos cruza-se com as dinâmicas de crescimento e de enquadramento destas opções religiosas não institucionalizadas que constituem, por si, um espaço de autonomia e de afirmação, social e religiosa, das mulheres no âmbito do mundo medieval.
Taking the city of Évora as a point of observation, this paper intends to analyze several non-regular religious experiences performed by women, inside the city, along the 15th century. The memory, registered in the liturgical books of the city´s cathedral, of several poor or enclosure women that were buried inside that temple and trusted to their clergy the intercession for their souls, is the pretext to understand the strong implementation of such groups of poor women inside the city, its evolution during this century and the changes that led to their conversion into monastic communities. The feminine relevance assumed in the support or in the admission to these groups is intersected with the dynamics of expansion and context of these non institutionalized religious options, which are a space of autonomy and a statement of social and religious role of women in the medieval world.
Taking the city of Évora as a point of observation, this paper intends to analyze several non-regular religious experiences performed by women, inside the city, along the 15th century. The memory, registered in the liturgical books of the city´s cathedral, of several poor or enclosure women that were buried inside that temple and trusted to their clergy the intercession for their souls, is the pretext to understand the strong implementation of such groups of poor women inside the city, its evolution during this century and the changes that led to their conversion into monastic communities. The feminine relevance assumed in the support or in the admission to these groups is intersected with the dynamics of expansion and context of these non institutionalized religious options, which are a space of autonomy and a statement of social and religious role of women in the medieval world.
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Experiências religiosas femininas Pobre vida Reclusão voluntária Mundo urbano Idade Média Évora Portugal Female religious experiences Poor life Voluntary reclusion Urban world Middle Ages
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FONTES, João Luís Inglês – Em torno de uma experiência religiosa feminina: as mulheres da pobre vida de Évora. Lusitania Sacra. Lisboa. ISSN 0076-1508. 2ª S. 31 (Jan. - Jun. 2015) 51-71
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa