The devotion of anchoresses: Charisma and body in Italian communes (13th-14th centuries)

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira Miatello, André Luis
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/119309
• topic: Devoção; confrarias; eremitismo urbano; penitência; comunas italianas; História e religiosidade; devotion; penance; urban eremitism; laywomen

This paper aims to explain how the urban anchoresses of the Late Middle Ages faced the sociopolitical situation of the Communes by elaborating a policy of devotion and charity based on their own bodies. It is expected to demonstrate that self-immolation and ecstasies found political meanings in the Devotio Verberatorum of 1260 and in the millenarian expectations of the Flagellant movements and, therefore, that this context projected the anchoresses, as women, in the political arena from which they were excluded. By studying the hagiographies, chronicles and Italian confraternal statutes, the paper demonstrates that penitents and anchoresses seriously interfered in the ethical aThis paper aims to explain how the urban anchoresses of the Late Middle Ages faced the sociopolitical situation of the Communes by elaborating a policy of devotion and charity based on their own bodies. It is expected to demonstrate that self-immolation and ecstasies found political meanings in the Devotio Verberatorum of 1260 and in the millenarian expectations of the Flagellant movements and, therefore, that this context projected the anchoresses, as women, in the political arena from which they were excluded. By studying the hagiographies, chronicles and Italian confraternal statutes, the paper demonstrates that penitents and anchoresses seriously interfered in the ethical and political debates of the Communes through penance, works of mercy and, in the specific case of anchoresses, also through of their spiritual teaching, which projected the female voice on the urban scenend political debates of the Communes through penance, works of mercy and, in the specific case of anchoresses, also through of their spiritual teaching, which projected the female voice on the urban scene