A Idade Média e as mulheres na Legenda Áurea

Abstract

This work aims to demonstrate the importance of women in the Middle Ages. His contributions to the spread of Christianity, and the difficulties faced in a period so far from ours. Understanding the nuances of human life itself in this period is of great value to us. The life story of these characters so simple will lead our analysis in characterizing how faith was developed. Observing the bodies of these women, the gestures, the practices of faith, the reverence, the devotion to what was considered sacred. In this case, it will demonstrate the importance of the faith of each of them described in the documentation. The saints pictured here will possibly simply lead to our perception of the Christian faith practiced by them. The many transformations that took place in the medieval world in the 17th and 18th centuries will point to the emergence of the concerns of churchmen around the spirituality exercised in the context of medieval society. Amid these changes, observing the pure and simple life of characters imagined and thought of in the Middle Ages will reveal the greatness of the Christian faith exercised and rooted in everyday life, meaning in the body and life of these characters portrayed.