ABSTRACT

The Observant reforms marked the religious landscape of late medieval Europe, changing the Church as a whole and initiating a wave of reforms and the foundation of convents in all the major religious orders. Recent studies devoted to the subject have revealed the pluralities of the movement in each territory and congregation and alerted scholars to the necessity of studies that go beyond the official accounts of reform produced by the Observants within a propagandistic agenda. Centring on the spread of Observance in the Dominican province of Portugal—for which the main reference remains early modern chronicles, based on the accounts of the reformers—this paper seeks to bring new insights to the dynamics and agents behind the spread of this reform among the Portuguese Dominicans, in particular the female branch of the order, in which proliferation was deeply connected with the reformative politics of the time.

摘要

观察者的改革标志着中世纪晚期欧洲的宗教风貌，改变了整个教会，并发起了一波改革浪潮，并在所有主要宗教秩序中建立了修道院。最近针对该主题的研究揭示了运动在每个领土和会众中的多元性，并提醒学者注意研究的必要性超出了宣传员在宣传议程内进行的改革的正式说明。围绕纪念活动在葡萄牙多米尼加省的传播，该省的主要参考文献仍是早期现代编年史，根据改革者的说法，本论文力求为这一改革背后的动力和因素带来新的见解。葡萄牙的多米尼加人，特别是该命令的女性分支，