Clarissimo speculo bonitatis Dei : o mundo de Tomás de Celano e a sua leitura de mundus

The aim of this study is to understand the version of St. Francis of Assisi created by Friar Thomas of Celano in his hagiographic works. That study also it examines how the Order of Friars Minor and the Papacy have understood the relationship between Christians and the world and turned thisunderstanding in a version of the Saint. Factors such as the replacement of Neoplatonism byAristotelianism as philosophical paradigm and economic and social changes have contributed to change the interpretation of the biblical mandate to not love the world , no longer interpreted as materiality, but as an order for Christians to flee sin. The rejection of the world was replaced by a greater appreciation of nature and society. Moreover, increasingly, the body went from enemy to friend, becoming the brotherbody. Such analysis is important to review the idea, so common in the historiography of what MaxWeber called Worldly Asceticism, the Christian life lived in society, only emerged in Protestantism in opposition to monasticism. The mendicant orders, especially the minority tried during the thirteenth century, the period of analysis of this work, experience the loving nature of Christianity and acting,through preaching and charity in the cities.To make this work, were analyzed the hagiographic discourse (on San Francisco) made by Thomas of Celano, Vita beati Francisci (called Vita Prima) and Memorial in desideiro anime (named Vita Secunda) and, from this, understand the Celano´s interpretation on how it should be the Christian's relationship with the world. The world ceased to be adistorted reflection of a perfect reality, becoming the perfect reflection of God's goodness.

O despertar dos mendicantes para os outros mundos ( séculos XIII e XIV )

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Operários da undécima hora : os Agostinianos Recoletos no Brasil: criação da província de Santa Rita de Cássia e o impacto do Concílio Vaticano II

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Espíritos inquietos e orgulhosos: os frades capuchos na Amazônia Joanina (1706-1751)

A presente dissertação discute o estabelecimento dos frades franciscanos como um poder local, a partir das redes de influência que criaram e dos conflitos em que estes frades estavam envolvidos. Procuramos, dessa forma, compreender como se constroem as relações sociais entre os capuchos e o mundo secular, relações estas marcadas por lutas nascidas a partir de diferentes pontos de vista, principalmente no que é referente ao contato com o índio, e que permitem analisar os aspectos mais marcantes dos missionários como um núcleo de poder no Estado do Maranhão e Grão-Pará.

Reflexões sobre a formação do acervo da Academia de Direito do Largo de São Francisco: do século XIX aos nossos dias

O trabalho apresenta algumas reflexões sobre a história da formação do acervo acadêmico dos cursos jurídicos do Brasil criados no século XIX, especificamente da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo. A primeira Biblioteca Pública de São Paulo, fundada em 1825, exerceu forte influência para que o Convento dos frades franciscanos recebesse a escola de direito criada por Decreto Imperial, em razão de seu fundo bibliográfico de 5.000 mil livros, preponderantemente de cunho eclesiástico, e considerável para os padrões culturais do Brasil à época. Atualmente configura-se como uma importante biblioteca jurídica acadêmica da América Latina e, ao longo da sua história tem sido uma instituição de depósito moral, isto é, recebe doações das mais diversas localidades do país, encaminhadas espontaneamente pelos autores para ter sua obra disponibilizada no acervo do primeiro e um dos mais tradicionais cursos de Direito do Brasil. Atualmente, este acervo está estimado em aproximadamente 400 mil itens, com doações de personalidades brasileiras. Outro ponto estudado refere-se ao estabelecimento de critérios para seleção de material – corpo editorial, autores de renome, relevância nos temas abordados etc. – em razão do boom editorial ocorrido na década de 1990, concomitante com o aumento de escolas de Direito no país. Chama-se à reflexão de quem atua na seara jurídica para atentar a pontos relevantes no momento da seleção para não incorrer no erro de avaliar com preconceito, modernidade, ideológico, interesse de estudo pessoal ou embasado apenas na data de publicação da obra. As ciências humanas, diferentemente de outras áreas, têm sua obsolescência mais lenta ou inexistente, decorrendo em grave erro para o Direito julgar exclusivamente pela data de publicação, o que torna premente aos profissionais bibliotecários dominarem conceitos básicos na área de atuação para que as bibliotecas sejam depositárias de material bibliográfico de qualidade.

La cultura monástica en las Cantigas de Santa María de Alfonso X : Pervivencia, adopción y reelaboración

La tesis analiza la forma en la que son presentados los monjes, las órdenes y la cultura monástica en las Cantigas de Santa María (mediados del siglo XIII) de Alfonso X, el Sabio. Se estudian no sólo la aparición de los monjes, como personajes de las cantigas narrativas, y sus diversas actividades (liturgia, plegaria, trabajo manual, lectura, estudio, etc.), sino también las diferentes fuentes que posiblemente hayan estado en la base de la gran empresa de confección de las Cantigas, en el scriptorium alfonsi. Por un lado, clérigos, frailes y monasterios estrechamente ligados a la persona misma del rey Alfonso X y a su corte (Juan Gil de Zamora, Bernardo de Brihuega, Rodrigo de Cerrato, monasterio de Las Huelgas de Burgos, etc.). Por otro, un enorme acervo de obras marianas de procedencia monacal: colecciones de milagros en latín y romance; compendios de himnos, secuencias y otros cantos litúrgicos; y obras doctrinales que contienen la marialogía monástica de los siglos anteriores. Todo ello puesto al servicio de la creación de un cancionero mariano con un específico ideal cristiano, monárquico y laico.

La cultura monástica en las Cantigas de Santa María de Alfonso X : Pervivencia, adopción y reelaboración

La tesis analiza la forma en la que son presentados los monjes, las órdenes y la cultura monástica en las Cantigas de Santa María (mediados del siglo XIII) de Alfonso X, el Sabio. Se estudian no sólo la aparición de los monjes, como personajes de las cantigas narrativas, y sus diversas actividades (liturgia, plegaria, trabajo manual, lectura, estudio, etc.), sino también las diferentes fuentes que posiblemente hayan estado en la base de la gran empresa de confección de las Cantigas, en el scriptorium alfonsi. Por un lado, clérigos, frailes y monasterios estrechamente ligados a la persona misma del rey Alfonso X y a su corte (Juan Gil de Zamora, Bernardo de Brihuega, Rodrigo de Cerrato, monasterio de Las Huelgas de Burgos, etc.). Por otro, un enorme acervo de obras marianas de procedencia monacal: colecciones de milagros en latín y romance; compendios de himnos, secuencias y otros cantos litúrgicos; y obras doctrinales que contienen la marialogía monástica de los siglos anteriores. Todo ello puesto al servicio de la creación de un cancionero mariano con un específico ideal cristiano, monárquico y laico.

Das Grab der Bettel-Monche.

Also attrib. to Joh. Ferd. Gaum. cf. Holzmann. Deut. anon. lex. v. 2, p. 234.

Ecclesiae londino-batavae archivvm ...

"Editions of the Theatrum" of Ortelius: v. 1, p. xxvi-xlii; "Synoptic view of the maps published by Ortelius from 1570 till 1595 ... in the successive editions of his Theatrum": v. 1, p. xliii-li.

Mount Carmel in the Commune: Promoting the Holy Land in Central Italy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

The Carmelite friars were the last of the major mendicant orders to be established in Italy. Originally an eremitical order, they arrived from the Holy Land in the 1240s, decades after other mendicant orders, such as the Franciscans and Dominicans, had constructed churches and cultivated patrons in the burgeoning urban centers of central Italy. In a religious market already saturated with friars, the Carmelites distinguished themselves by promoting their Holy Land provenance, eremitical values, and by developing an institutional history claiming to be descendants of the Old Testament prophet Elijah. By the end of the 13th century the order had constructed thriving churches and convents and leveraged itself into a prominent position in the religious community. My dissertation analyzes these early Carmelite churches and convents, as well as the friars��� interactions with patrons, civic governments, and the urban space they occupied. Through three primary case studies – the churches and convents of Pisa, Siena and Florence – I examine the Carmelites’ approach to art, architecture, and urban space as the order transformed its mission from one of solitary prayer to one of active ministry.

My central questions are these: To what degree did the Carmelites’ Holy Land provenance inform the art and architecture they created for their central Italian churches? And to what degree was their visual culture instead a reflection of the mendicant norms of the time?

I have sought to analyze the Carmelites at the institutional level, to determine how the order viewed itself and how it wanted its legacy to develop. I then seek to determine how and if the institutional model was utilized in the artistic and architectural production of the individual convents. The understanding of Carmelite art as a promotional tool for the identity of the order is not a new one, however my work is the first to consider deeply the order’s architectural aspirations. I also consider the order’s relationships with its de facto founding saint, the prophet Elijah, and its patron, the Virgin Mary, in a more comprehensive manner that situates the resultant visual culture into the contemporary theological and historical contexts.

Alonso de Burgos y la fundación y primeros estatutos del colegio de San Gregorio de Valladolid. La regulación de la vida religiosa y académica de los dominicos observantes en la Castilla del siglo XV

En el presente trabajo se analiza primeramente el proceso de fundación, a fines del siglo XV, del colegio de San Gregorio de Valladolid por parte del obispo dominico, consejero y confesor real Alonso de Burgos; el colegio, de patronato real y centrado en los estudios de teología, estaba reservado exclusivamente para frailes predicadores observantes. A continuación, y como parte más amplia y fundamental del estudio, se analizan los primeros estatutos que tuvo el colegio, otorgados por su fundador, ofreciéndose finalmente, en apéndice documental, su transcripción completa.

El Libro del Governador o Suma de collaciones o de ayuntamientos: versión castellana del "Communiloquium" de Juan de Gales

The intellectual production of Johannes Gallensis (also known as John of Wales, c. 1210/30 – 1285), regent-master of the Friars Minor at Oxford and later a lecturer and Doctor of Theology at Paris, was oriented towards furnishing Catholic preachers with a variety of compilations of moral philosophy aimed to serve them in their pastoral ministry. One of these compilations is the Communiloquium, a manual of a kind, which displays its author's attempt to provide adequate and specific argumentation for admonishing all sorts and types of devotees. Its most prominent characteristic is a highly accurate use of classical auctoritates and exempla, which turned this work into a kind of anthology of quotations and references, for it offered its readers the possibility of citing sources and texts that they themselves had never actually consulted. The impressive number of manuscript copies of the Communiloquium that reached our times bears witness to its great popularity (some one hundred and sixty dispersed in different European libraries, according to Jenny Swanson’s John of Wales. A Study of the Work and Ideas of a Thirteenth-Century Friar). The Communiloquium must have reached the Iberian soil by means of Franciscan friars and soon spread through courtly circles, as much as in the religious milieu, due to the political taint of its first part, rooted in the organological metaphor and containing extensive reflections on the virtues and the due behaviour of a monarch. In the Crown of Aragon, the Communiloquium used to be read out loud even among the artisans. In Castile, on the other hand, particularly between the XIIIth and the XVth centuries, its main audience happened to be the lettered nobility and those intellectuals who, dedicated to composing glosas and specula principum, required its resources...

As imagens de vestir da Procissão dos Terceiros: história, conceitos, e tradições. Um legado patrimonial franciscano na ilha de S. Miguel, Açores, nos séculos XVII a XIX

A temática proposta como objeto de estudo na presente tese, é o resultado de uma investigação dedicada ao fenómeno de utilização da imaginária processional nos cortejos de penitência de pendor franciscano, nos séculos XVII a XX na ilha de S. Miguel, Açores. Este tipo de manifestações religiosas, particularmente característico no espaço Iberoamericano, evidencia-se pela originalidade cenográfica, na qual são utilizados vestuário e adereços cénicos como complementos dos respetivos conjuntos escultóricos, as denominadas imagens de vestir. No arquipélago dos Açores, a Venerável Ordem Terceira da Penitência teve um papel de grande importância na organização destes eventos processionais, sendo que as ilhas de S. Miguel e da Terceira representam atualmente um dos últimos redutos na organização de procissões penitenciais, com recurso à utilização de imagens de vestir. No caso especifíco de S. Miguel, este tipo de imaginária pode ser ainda observada nos acervos de algumas das antigas igrejas conventuais da Ordem dos Frades Menores existentes nesta ilha, bem como na única procissão oriunda do espírito penitencial da Ordem Terceira, que se realiza anualmente na cidade da Ribeira Grande. O estudo agora apresentado pretende compreender as diversas componentes da utilização deste tipo de imaginária, bem como o registo do legado patrimonial que os seculares franciscanos perpetuaram até à atualidade, materializado num processo de patrimonialização das suas imagens de vestir, expresso na dicotomia entre os objetos, enquanto matéria, e as suas realidades biográficas, ligadas às comunidades de Terceiros que estiveram por detrás do uso destas imagens processionais; ABSTRACT: Religious sculptures for dressing of the Third Procession: history, concepts, typologies and traditions - A Franciscan heritage legacy in the island of S. Miguel, Azores, between the 17th and 19th centuries. The theme proposed as object of study in this thesis is the result of a research dedicated to the custom of adorning religious sculptures and displaying them in Franciscan penitential processions between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, in the island of S. Miguel, Azores. This type of religious expression, particularly characteristic in the Ibero-American space, featuring up by scenic originality, in which clothing and scenic props are used to complement the respective sculptural groups, called religious sculptures for dressing. In the Azores, the Venerable Third Order of Penance had a major role in organizing these processional events, and the islands of S. Miguel and Terceira currently represents one of the last holdouts in organizing penitential processions, with the use of religious sculptures for dressing. In the case of S. Miguel, this type of imaginary can still be seen in the collections of some of the ancient Order of the convent churches of the Friars Minor existing on this island, and the only procession coming from the penitential spirit of the Third Order, which is held annually in the city of Ribeira Grande. The study now being presented aims to understand the various components of the use of such imaginary, and the recording of heritage legacy that the Franciscan secular perpetuated to the present day, materialized in a patrimonialization process of their dress images, expressed in the dichotomy between objects, as matter, and their biographical realities, linked to third-party communities that were behind the use of these processional images.

19th c. Coloured stuccos and plasters from Grilos' Church (Oporto, Portugal): Materials and techniques employed

The Oporto's St. Lourenço Church of the Jesuit College is locally known, since the St. Augustin Barefooted Eremites occupation (1779/80), as Grilos' Church. The Oporto's siege laid by D. Pedro and D. Miguel (1832/33) succeed in the college abandonment by Grilo's Friars. Throughout Augustin Friars presence period, the white plasters of the nave (end of 18th c.) were executed and it was constructed the Holly Sacrament Chapel (early 19th c.) with neoclassic coloured stuccos and plasters, influenced by Robert Adam, Luigi Chiari and Teixeira Barreto ornamental motifs. Pigments were added to the external layer to imitate the marble and to achieve the “base” colour of the panels. This study of the blue, rose and white stuccos and plasters of H.S. Chapel of Grilo's Church allows carrying out useful database on the original mortars composition by the use of different analytical techniques, important to select the most adequate solutions for restoration interventions. Optical microscopy, XRD, TG-DTA, SEM-EDS, XRF analysis results were considered to identify the composition of different layers and to provide mineralogical, microstructure and chemical characterization of the mortars components and to quantify the binder content in those mortars. These results were compared with collected information on compositions from other sources. This study allowed the identification of the decay causes of decorative stuccos and plaster, suggesting that water retention in the masonries and wooden laths structure of the dome of the chapel is the main factor.