Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1993. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-266).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-161). Print copy also available.

Neste trabalho são estudados os hospícios da Terra Santa que vêm a ser hospedarias para religiosos franciscanos que percorriam vilas e cidades arrecadando esmolas para a conservação dos Lugares Santos da Palestina. Partindo da etimologia da palavra hospício, percorreu-se sua variação semântica ao longo do tempo. Compreendida a pertinência dos hospícios à estrutura física monástica, foram consultados dicionários dos séculos XVIII e XIX para um melhor entendimento do objeto de estudo no seu tempo.A partir deste ponto, toma-se como objetivo geral o estudo das casas da ordem franciscana. São abordados aspectos como a organização da custódia para coletar as esmolas necessárias à missão dos frades menores na Terra Santa e ao empreendimento de obras sociais naquele território. Esse trabalho beneficente inclui o acolhimento aos peregrinos católicos em hospícios, cuja arquitetura aqui se desvela. Voltando-se para o ocidente, é estudado o hospício lisboeta, em particular seu projeto, os arquitetos e mestres que nele trabalharam e as modificações e reconstruções por que passou. A distribuição dos esmoleres em Portugal continental, ilhas e conquistas, abrangendo quatro continentes, demandou a construção de hospícios e de celas em conventos franciscanos. Nessa produção arquitetônica se detém com minúcia. Tendo em vista o objetivo específico da tese, são estudados os hospícios da Terra Santa no Brasil, com ênfase ao hospício de Ouro Preto. São analisadas as circunstâncias de instalação dos hospícios no Brasil colônia, e o que ocorreu com essas casas após a independência. São estudados, desde sua implantação até os registros mais recentes encontrados, os hospícios que existiram nas seguintes localidades: Salvador, Ouro Preto,Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Sabará, São João del-Rei, Diamantina, Pirenópolis e Cidade de Goiás. Identificou-se um programa de necessidades comum entre os hospícios destinados aos esmoleres. Para isto, foram utilizadas informações trazidas por livros referentes à arquitetura franciscana, por algumas publicações específicas sobre hospícios franciscanos, como também, por fontes primárias. Além dessas descrições textuais, as análises se basearam em desenhos e no único exemplar remanescente no Brasil, que permitiu o estudo in loco. O status quo de conhecimentos sobre os hospícios na acepção de casas religiosas alcança um patamar bastante elevado com os resultados aqui apresentados. / Herein are presented the results of a study of the hospices of the Holy Land which offered lodging for the franciscan priests who traveled through villages and cities collecting donations for the conservation of the Palestine\'s sacred possessions. For a start, the etymology of the word hospice has varied its semantics along the years. Herein, it is defined as a monastic physical structure that lodged pilgrims during their travels. To arrive at this definition, dictionaries from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were consulted to better understand the object under study in its context. This led to the overall objective of this study which is the study of the franciscan hospices. Aspects, such as organizing the collection of donations that was necessary for the mission of the priests in the Holy Land and the realization of social works in the territory, are approached. These works of charity included the lodging of catholic pilgrims in the hospices, whose architecture is herein described. Regarding the hospices in the East, the study of the Lisbon hospice is presented, which includes its project, architects and supervisors who have worked therein, and the modifications and reconstructions that occurred. The distribution of the donations in the Portuguese homeland, islands and colonies involved four continents which required the construction of hospices, as well as lodgings in Franciscan convents. This architectural production came to a halt with minutia. As such, the specific objective of this thesis is the study of the hospices of the Holy Land here in Brazil, with emphasis on an hospice in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. Herein are analyzed the circumstances that generated the installation of hospices in colonial Brazil, as well as what occurred with these buildings after Brazil\'s independence. These are studies of their implantation through the most recent registers found for the hospices that existed in the following localities: Salvador, Ouro Preto, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Sabará, São João del Rei, Diamantina, Pirenópolis and Cidade de Goiás. Identified was a program of a common need among the hospices destined to receive the donations. To achieve this, the information presented in books referring to Franciscan architecture, specific publications dealing with franciscan hospices and primary sources were used. Besides these textual descriptions, the analysis was also based on drawings and inspection of the only remaining example in Brazil, which permitted a study in-loco The status quo of the knowledge about the hospices for the purpose of lodging the clergy attains a relatively high level with the results herein presented.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, March, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Akademisk afhandling--Upsala. / "Källor och litteratur": p. [xiv]-xxvii.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, 2007/08. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 484-500) and index.

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This thesis explores the evolving history of the Cistercian convent of Günterstal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is structured around the anointing of the Last Rites of a Günterstal nun who was blessed on her eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, heart and feet. The thesis takes each body part as a symbol for understanding the changing environment and practices of the convent, especially the relationship between the nuns' spiritual and everyday lives, and the ways in which the nuns interacted with the world outside. It argues that the nuns developed a spirituality in the later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries which was closely connected with the everyday world around them in a series of practices which went into decline following the criticism of the Reformation. Many of these were strategies developed by the nuns themselves for breaking down boundaries between convent and world. Attempts at revival in the later sixteenth century of convent life sought to heighten the distance between the convent and the world, in part by developing new forms of internalised spirituality. Yet these attempts at reform were made more difficult by the conflicting interests of those who sought change, the criticism which had come before, and the response of the nuns themselves. The thesis analyses a number of different external symbols of convent life, from the spaces they inhabited to the objects they handled, and shows how these represented a number of different values of what it meant to be a nun in this period, values which did not always sit easily with each other. Günterstal maintained a noble character throughout this period and the social profile of its inhabitants often jarred with the push towards religious uniformity. This thesis shows that the symbolic value of these markers became increasingly heightened over the sixteenth century and took on new forms as a direct result of the attack on the convent way of life in the Reformation.