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“O fogo do teu amor”: orações e meditações de um monge alcobacense em Quatrocentos

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Summary:This paper briefly presents and partially edits a set of prayers and spiritual meditations of a monk from the monastery of Alcobaça, preserved in the manuscript of the BNP - Alc. CCLXXIV/212 fls. 252-282, datable to the mid-fifteenth century. These mystical meditations, although anonymous, are a rare and important testimony of the standard of religious living and feeling within the most important Cistercian Portuguese community, which has at the time, gone through an important, but hardly known, period of cultural and intellectual renewal.
Main Authors:Gomes, Saul António
Subject:Mosteiro de Alcobaça Oração Espiritualidade cisterciense Monastery of Alcobaça Prayer Cistercian spirituality
Year:2010
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:unknown
Associated institution:Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Language:Portuguese
Origin:Lusitania Sacra
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Summary:This paper briefly presents and partially edits a set of prayers and spiritual meditations of a monk from the monastery of Alcobaça, preserved in the manuscript of the BNP - Alc. CCLXXIV/212 fls. 252-282, datable to the mid-fifteenth century. These mystical meditations, although anonymous, are a rare and important testimony of the standard of religious living and feeling within the most important Cistercian Portuguese community, which has at the time, gone through an important, but hardly known, period of cultural and intellectual renewal.