Do recomendado ao lido : direcção espiritual e prática de leitura entre franciscanas e clarissas em Portugal no século XVII

Resumo

If it is difficult to ascertain the type of texts read in the Early Modern  Age, it is far more  complex and  difficult  to  study  which  texts  were  being  read  in  convents, espacially by nuns, due to the rigid roles by which those places were governed and the difficulty in having access  to such sources. It was the responsability  of a large group of people to select and guide the reading of the accepted texts: perceptresses of  novices,   confessors,   spiritual   mentors,   etc.   The  analysis   of   the  list   of recommended texts and of the aspects that should guide the way to read them found in the letters of an illustrious Franciscan, Friar António das Chagas (d 1682), to his many pupils, lead us to establish de corpus of recommended texts and compare them with those mentioned in some biographies of devout people of that same period included in conventual chronicles.