Preacher Magdalena
Female icons in Portuguese baroque parenetics
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14393/CEF-v34n1-2021-9Abstract
The sacred Christian preaching was one of the accents of the confessional movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe, however, the license for the use of the word was reserved for men. Nevertheless, some religious women, besides writing institutional regulations, letters and memoirs, dedicated themselves to the elaboration of texts both about sermons and in sermonistic format. At the same time, the specialized bibliography, although it does not find a complete proof of female preaching, indicates its possibility of existence. In the aridity of the studies, representations and sources about an eventual female preaching, we started by identifying the baroque images of the religious of the letters wanting, with this, to materialize the metaphors of a female intelligentsia, represented in the sermons preached by men. Then, we panned the relics of the use of “the word” by Portuguese female voices, trying to demonstrate their literacy in the paneretic universe, as well as the conviction that this gap does not imply an inexistence, but rather a kind silencing.
KEYWORDS: Portuguese Baroque. Literate Women. Lusophone Sermonistics.
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