A assistência às mulheres nas Misericórdias portuguesas (séculos XVI-XVIII)

This paper aims at analysing the assistance provided to women by the Portuguese Misericórdia institutions, along the Modern Age. We are especially underlining the support given to young orphans in the years before their marriages, as well as to widows and older women. Since they were considered as f...

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Autor principal:	Maria Marta Lobo de Araújo
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2008
Materias:	honour women poverty charity Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:90667a1634054ccbb1ba6828e4e99a252021-12-02T10:36:33ZA assistência às mulheres nas Misericórdias portuguesas (séculos XVI-XVIII)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.23482https://doaj.org/article/90667a1634054ccbb1ba6828e4e99a252008-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/23482https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This paper aims at analysing the assistance provided to women by the Portuguese Misericórdia institutions, along the Modern Age. We are especially underlining the support given to young orphans in the years before their marriages, as well as to widows and older women. Since they were considered as fragile and unable to preserve their honour all by themselves, women were helped along the most dangerous periods of their lives, in their adolescence and when they became widows. They were also helped by the last years of their lives, when growing old, in a way to minimize the unavoidable difficulties. Charity towards women was understood as a means of salvation, and therefore aimed at preserving them in chastity and dignity, thereby corresponding to the feminine ideals of post-Trento society.Maria Marta Lobo de AraújoCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticlehonourwomenpovertycharityAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2008)
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description	This paper aims at analysing the assistance provided to women by the Portuguese Misericórdia institutions, along the Modern Age. We are especially underlining the support given to young orphans in the years before their marriages, as well as to widows and older women. Since they were considered as fragile and unable to preserve their honour all by themselves, women were helped along the most dangerous periods of their lives, in their adolescence and when they became widows. They were also helped by the last years of their lives, when growing old, in a way to minimize the unavoidable difficulties. Charity towards women was understood as a means of salvation, and therefore aimed at preserving them in chastity and dignity, thereby corresponding to the feminine ideals of post-Trento society.
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title	A assistência às mulheres nas Misericórdias portuguesas (séculos XVI-XVIII)
title_short	A assistência às mulheres nas Misericórdias portuguesas (séculos XVI-XVIII)
title_full	A assistência às mulheres nas Misericórdias portuguesas (séculos XVI-XVIII)
title_fullStr	A assistência às mulheres nas Misericórdias portuguesas (séculos XVI-XVIII)
title_full_unstemmed	A assistência às mulheres nas Misericórdias portuguesas (séculos XVI-XVIII)
title_sort	assistência às mulheres nas misericórdias portuguesas (séculos xvi-xviii)
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A assistência às mulheres nas Misericórdias portuguesas (séculos XVI-XVIII)

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