O Ofício à Rainha Santa Isabel, de André de Resende

• Autor(a) principal: Toipa, Helena Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/mathesis.2011.5216

 When the official worship of Queen Saint Elisabeth (a beatified woman, at that time) expanded, during the sixteenth century, in Coimbra, the humanist André de Resende composed and published a divine office, to replace a previously one used by the nuns of the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha. That divine office appears on the proceedings conducing to the Queen’s canonization, constituted at the beginning of the seventeenth century. To its composition, concerning the Lectiones, André de Resende took his inspiration and followed, rigorously and synthetically, the Queen’s biographical narrative, existent as a manuscript at the Monastery’s library, written by an anonymous author, but close to the Queen. That biography was used by all of those who wrote about this Saint Queen.