Um espaço de oração na Época Moderna

Resumo

Several literary testimonies (particularly spiritual work) from the late I 5th century to the end of the 16th century were the basis for this study in which the author seeks to establish the traditions associated to the oratory as a private and reclusive space for prayer. According to those testimonies the  number  of  oratories  increased  significantly  during  that  period.  and,  according  to  other testimonies, particularly from preachers and moralists. this situation led to serious misuses of those spaces. Simultaneously, there was an attempt to establish their function, as places of prayer and penitence, as well as how they should be decorated.