Literatura devota em Portugal no tempo dos Filipes : o Memorial da Infância de Cristo, de Soror Maria de Mesquita Pimentel

Abstract

The comparison  between the heroic verses of this Cistercian nun,  the Meditatações da Vida de Cristo  (for many years attributed  to St Boaventura) and  the Exercícios Espirituais,  from St Ignatius,  helped  us to establish,  on the one hand,  the importance  of these two  works on the spiritual development of the Portuguese members of female religious Orders, and on the birth of some of the 17th Century conventual women's  literature, on the other hand, in a period in which Portugal was still dominated by the Spanish rule of the Filipes.