Departamento de estudos Portugueses e estudos Românicos

This article intends to identify the main features of the trajectory and evolution of the literature leading with penitence in Portugal after the Tridentine Council. Some particular aspects of the evolution of the genre are underlined, taking into account, first, the continuity of the conditions of its production from the late 15th to the mid-16th century; secondly, its dependency on the pastoral orientations formulated by the Council - particularly through the Roman Catechism - and thirdly, the strong influence of Spanish authors and works from the later decades of the 16th century. The effort put on the diffusion of the sacramental confession, the calling for frequent confession ant the attempt of articulating the practice of confession with that of communion and other devotional practices are emphasized.

Jorge Cardoso's "Agiologio Lusitano" (17th century, 3 volumes in-folio) is a large inventory of all the "lives" of saints and other men and women "illustrious in virtue" of "Portugal and its conquests", who were at risk of being "buried in oblivion". The "Agiologio" also intended to praise the "santos da Patria" so that the Portuguese would have models to follow and the "foreigners" would recognize Portugal as a "home of holy people". In spite of his incompleteness - the "Agiologio" was only partially continued in the 18th Century by António Caetano de Sousa -, this work became an indispensable reference for those studying sainthood and spiritual life in Portugal from the Ancient Lusitania until the 17th Century, as well as for the study of the religious and social life of that historical period.

This article includes the commented edition and study of one part - the manuscripts - of the lost library of Jorge Cardoso (d.1669). It is based on an 18th century copy of the index of the printed and manuscript books, whose original was authored by J. Cardoso himself. The purpose of this article is to discuss the way as the manuscript part of Jorge Cardoso's library is, to a large extent, the outcome of Cardoso's effort to gather the largest possible amount of information and documents (mostly historical and hagiographic, both originals and copies) which would allow him to write a work - the "Agiologio Lusitano" - he intended to be through and well informed, the ultimate work of his genre in Portugal.

The Spanish translation and publishing of "Carta de Guia de Casados" (Madrid, 1724 and 1787) witnesses not only the prestige of its author, Francisco Manuel de Melo, in Spain, but also for the cultural significance of this "letter", jointly published with the work of Luis de Abreu e Melo's "Avisos para palácio" . This article focuses on a range of issues related to the the relevance or the joint publication of this two works .

This book edits the portuguese Fr. Luís dos Anjos's Jardim de Portugal (1626), with an introduction and notes. The work was dedicated to identifie and present the lives of portuguese saintes and other regarded as virtuous women born or dead in Portugal and its "conquests".

FEDERICO PALOMO (coord.) – La memoria del mundo: clero, erudición y cultura escrita en el mundo ibérico (siglos XVI-XVIII). Madrid: Publicaciones Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2014 (Cuadernos de Historia Moderna. Anejos. Serie de Monografías, XIII), 362 pp. Review in Via Spiritus, 2015.